with the Use of Purgatives; for as the Bowels
remained weak and easily irritated, such Medicines were apt to bring
back the Flux; and therefore, in the Beginning, we were for the most
part obliged to attempt the Cure by Diuretics and Diaphoretics; and to
be sparing of the Use of Purgatives, especially of those of the
hydragogue Kind; though if the Swellings continued for some Time after
the Flux was gone off, and the Patients were strong, we then ventured
to give Purges at proper Intervals:--And Blisters and Scarifications
removed them in several Instances both at _Paderborn_ and
_Osnabruck_.

In _December_, 1761, we had a Case of this Kind where the _oxymel
scilliticum_ was of remarkable Service. A Soldier, belonging to the
Guards, after a Flux, swelled all over, and made but a very small
Quantity of Water. He took Medicines of different Sorts for some
Weeks, but received no Benefit till we gave him the Oxymel Mixture;
after taking a few Doses he made Water very freely, and in large
Quantities, and the Swellings of his Body and Scrotum began
immediately to subside; and by continuing its Use for a Fortnight, the
Swellings entirely disappeared, and he recovered his Health and
Strength.--The Oxymel, at the same Time that it promoted a Flow of
Urine, kept his Body gently open, but did not occasion any Return of
the Flux.

At the Beginning of _January_, 1762, one _Carter_, a Soldier of the
Eleventh Regiment of Foot, laboured under an universal Anasarca; which
about two Months before had succeeded a Flux. He made but very little
Water, and that of a high red Colour. He took Variety of Medicines,
as Purges, Vomits, _Dover_'s Powder, lixivial and neutral Salts with
Opiates, Infusions of Horse-Radish, all without Effect; till he was
ordered small Doses of Calomel, three Grains Morning and Evening.
After the third Dose he began to make Water freely; and by the 24th of
_January_ the Swellings were all gone, and he was shipped off for
_England_ the 8th of _February_; having been discharged from his
Regiment. The Ship, he went aboard of, was detained in the River
_Weser_ for above six Weeks, and the malignant Fever broke out aboard
the Transport: He took the Distemper, and got well of it; but towards
the Decline was seized with a Return of the Flux, which carried him
off.

When these oedematous Swellings came after the Purging was stopt, if
the Patient's Strength was not much exhausted, and he laboured under
no other Disorder