ooling
Medicines, such as Nitre, the saline or mindereri Draughts, mixed at
Times with Sperma Ceti, or some other of the mild Pectorals.

[55] In private Practice, at this Stage of the Disorder, the
Use of Asses Milk, and drinking the _Bristol_ Water at the
_Bristol_ Wells, and riding on Horseback daily, are justly
ranked amongst the most efficacious Remedies; and going into
the more southern Climates, as the South of _France_,
_Portugal_, or _Italy_, where the Air is warmer, more
constant, and dry, than in _England_, has often been found to
produce good Effects.

The opening a Vein, and taking away from four to eight Ounces of
Blood[56], whenever the Pain of the Breast was troublesome, or the
Patient was hot and restless at Nights from the Hectic Fever, gave the
greatest Relief of any Thing we tried; and these repeated small
Bleedings were so far from wasting the Patient's Strength, that they
rather seemed to prevent its being exhausted so fast as otherwise it
would have been, by allaying the Force of the Hectic Fever.

[56] This Practice has been strongly recommended by Dr.
_Mead_, in his _Monita Medica_, Sect. x. and by an anonymous
Author in the _Edinburgh Medical Essays_, Vol. IV. Art. 28.
and Dr. _Mead_ says, when Things have not been quite
desperate, he has seen good Success from it.

At this Stage of the Disorder, we put in Setons, or ordered Issues, to
serve as a Drain to carry off the Matter, and found them of Advantage
in some Cases. When the Patients complained of any fixed Pain, we
always made the Issues as near the Part affected as possible[57]. On
the 5th of _May_, 1762, a Man, belonging to the Eighty-eighth Regiment
of Foot, was sent to the Hospital at _Bremen_ for an Haemoptoe,
attended with a constant hectic Heat and Fever.--After being blooded,
and using the cooling Remedies without Success, he had four Pea Issues
made in his Back; and had a slight Decoction of the Cortex, acidulated
with Spirit of Vitriol. As soon as the Issues began to discharge
freely, the hectic Heat, Fever, and Spitting of Blood, diminished
daily; and he recovered his Health and Strength in a short Time.
However, it ought to be observed, that although these Drains are
sometimes efficacious, yet, when the Disease is far advanced, the
Mischief is generally too deep rooted for them to be of any Service.

[57] In _June_, 1748, a Servant Girl came to ask my Advice
for