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a Grain of Opium, to be given every four Hours for six Times; and this removed both the Fever and Dysentery.--He says, he afterwards gave it, with equal Success, in the Quotidian Dysenteries, where he observed Exacerbations or Remissions; and he adds, that he does not doubt but that it will answer as well in Epidemical Diarrhoea's, and Camp Fevers attended with such Symptoms. Dr. _Whytt_ of _Edinburgh_ has given with Success a strong Decoction of the Bark, mixed with the _confectio japonica_ of the _Edinburgh_ Dispensatory, in the bad State of the Dysentery, when the Mouth and alimentary Canal were threatened with Aphthae, and even sometimes after they had appeared. And Dr. _Pringle_ mentions his having given the Decoction of the Bark, with Snake-Root and some Drops of Laudanum, in the Dysentery complicated with the malignant Fever. See _Note to Page 245 of his third Edition on the Diseases of the Army_. On the second or third Day, we repeated the Purge; or, if the Patient was weak, ordered a Clyster to be administered in its Place; in order to prevent the putrid Fluids and Excrements from being accumulated in the Bowels:--In other respects we treated it as when the Disorder was not complicated with the malignant Fever. This Method, though it did not succeed with all, yet it answered better than any other I tried;--and it ought to be remarked, that although it had such a good Effect in Cases attended with the malignant Fever, or where the Fever inclined to the intermittent Kind, it did not answer so well in other recent Cases, but often made the Patient sick. In military Hospitals, Fluxes are liable to be complicated with other Disorders, as well as with the malignant Fever; especially with Coughs, and pleuritic and peripneumonic Symptoms, when the Weather begins to be cold, in _October_ and _November_.--In such Cases, when the Patients were strong, we were often obliged to bleed freely, to apply Blisters, and in the Beginning treat the Disorder as inflammatory; having at the same Time an Eye towards the Flux, in the other Medicines we prescribed. Patients, who have had the Flux long, are apt to have their Legs swell at Nights; or to swell all over as soon as the Flux has stopped. Such oedematous or anasarcous Swellings, we treated nearly in the same Manner as those which followed the petechial Fever; only that we durst not at first be so free
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