very
temperate; and that this proceeded from an Instinct of
Nature, which wanted something to support the Strength. _De
Feb. Malig._ sect. iii. chap. 26. Dr. _Huxham_, in his _Essay
on Fevers_, has the following very judicious Remark on the
Use of Wine: "In this View, and in those above-mentioned, I
cannot but recommend a generous red Wine as a most noble,
natural sub-astringent Cordial, and perhaps Art can scarce
supply a better. Of this I am confident, that sometimes at
the State, and more frequently in the Decline of putrid
Malignant Fevers, it is of the highest Service, especially
when acidulated with Juice of _Seville_ Orange or Lemon. It
may be also impregnated with some Aromatics, as Cinnamon,
_Seville_ Orange Rhind, red Roses, or the like, as may be
indicated, and a few Drops of _Elix. Vitrioli_ may be added.
Rhenish and French White Wines, diluted, make a most salutary
Drink in several Kinds of Fevers, and generous Cyder is
little inferior to either. The _Asiatics_, and other Nations,
where pestilential Disorders are much more rife than with us,
lay more Stress on the Juice of Lemons in these Fevers than
on the most celebrated _Alexipharmac._" Chap, viii. second
Edit. p. 123, 4.

Acid and acescent Liquors have very justly been recommended
and used by most late Practitioners, in this as well as in
other malignant Diseases. Vinegar-whey, Barley-water
acidulated with Lemon-juice, and such other Liquors, make
good Drinks for the Sick; but we were obliged, for the most
part, to use the vitriolic Acid for acidulating the Patient's
Drink, as it was the easiest procured and carried about with
the Flying Hospital.

[10] If the preventive Method does not succeed, Dr. _Lind_
advises to have recourse to Blisters; and says, that sixteen
out of twenty will next Morning be free of the Fever. But
adds, this is said, provided the Source of their Infection be
not so highly poisonous as it was in the Garland Ship, or in
other such violent Contagions. Dr. _Pringle_ mentions his
having applied Blisters early, but without relieving the
Head, or preventing any of the usual Symptoms. I have often
ordered Blisters pretty early in the Disorder; and though I
have frequently found them of use in keeping up the Pulse,
and relieving the Head, and other Symptoms, yet I never saw