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good Effects of it, especially when the Patient at the same time had Worms; in such Cases we joined it to Rhubarb as mentioned in the Text, or gave a Calomel Bolus over Night, and a Purge next Morning. Dr. _Duncan_, Physician to his Majesty, told me, that he found the following Method of Cure always successful in the Dysentery, which was epidemic in _London_ in the Year 1762. If the Patient was Plethoric, or had much Fever, he ordered more or less Blood to be taken away; and then gave four Ounces of the following Julep, every Half Hour, till it both vomited and purged. Rx _Tartar. emetic. gr._ iij _Mannae elect. Unc._ ij _solve in Aq. hordeat. Lib._ 1.--The next Day, and for five or six Days more, the Patient took so much of a Decoction, of Manna, Tamarinds, and soluble Tartar, as kept up a free Discharge by Stool.--If the Irritation and Griping were severe, he found that a Solution of Manna, in the common Almond Emulsion, was sufficient. When the Pain, or Tenesmus, was violent, a Clyster, of Chicken Broth, or of an Infusion of Linseed, with an Ounce or two of Oil of sweet Almonds dissolved in the Yolk of an Egg, injected once or twice a Day, was of great Use. Upon the whole, he was always pleased when he saw large excrementitious Stools come away; and when that could be procured by a gentle Method, he was the more pleased. This Disorder was very often cured in a few Days, and in that Case he dropt the further Use of Medicines; but when it exceeded the Period of six or seven Days, he then added thirty or forty Drops of the _tinctura thebaica_ to the Clysters; and ordered a Scruple of the Extract of the Logwood to be taken thrice a Day in some proper Vehicle. The Patient's Diet was Rice-Gruel, Sago, Panado, and such like; no Animal Food, not so much as Chicken-Broth, was allowed in the Beginning of the Distemper, nor even Oil, Butter, or Fat of any Kind. The common Drink was Almond Emulsion, Rice-Water, or Barley-Water with Gum Arabic. Dr. _Duncan_ lost but one Patient out of Eighty, whom he had under his Care that Season; and he was delirious, had a high Fever, and a _subsultus tendinum_ before the Doctor was called to him, and he died the next Day. The late Dr. _Young_, of _Edinburgh_, seems to have had a very just Notion of this Disorder,
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