quently subject to indigestion. The liberal use of
cold water alone, in drinking, washing, and bathing, is often sufficient
to effect a cure. Drinking of sea water, gentle purgatives, with bark
and bitters, light and nourishing food, early rising, and gentle
exercise in the open air, are also of great importance.

INFECTION. During the prevalence of any infectious disease, every thing
requires to be kept perfectly clean, and the sick room to be freely
ventilated. The door or window should generally be open, the bed
curtains only drawn to shade the light, clothes frequently changed and
washed in cold water, all discharges from the patient instantly removed,
and the floor near the bed rubbed every day with a wet cloth. Take also
a hot brick, lay it in an earthen pan, and pour pickle vinegar upon it.
This will refresh the patient, as well as purify the surrounding
atmosphere. Those who are obliged to attend the patients, should not
approach them fasting, nor inhale their breath; and while in their
apartment, should avoid eating and drinking, and swallowing their own
saliva. It will also be of considerable service to smell vinegar and
camphor, to fumigate the room with tobacco, and to chew myrrh and
cinnamon, which promote a plentiful discharge from the mouth. As soon as
a person has returned from visiting an infected patient, he ought
immediately to wash his mouth and hands with vinegar, to change his
clothes, and expose them to the fresh air; and to drink an infusion of
sage, or other aromatic herbs. After the disorder has subsided, the
walls of the room should be washed with hot lime, which will render it
perfectly sweet.

INFLAMMATIONS. In external inflammations, attended with heat and
swelling of the part affected, cooling applications and a little opening
medicine are the best adapted; and in some cases, cataplasms of warm
emollient herbs may be used with advantage.

INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. In this case leeches should be applied to the
temples; and after the bleeding has ceased, a small blister may be
tried, with a little opening medicine. Much benefit has been derived
from shaving the head, cutting the hair, and bathing the feet in warm
water. If the inflammation has arisen from particles of iron or steel
falling into the eyes, the offending matter is best extracted by the
application of the loadstone. If eyes are blood-shotten, the necessary
rules are, an exclusion from light, cold fomentations, and abstin