It is of consequence immediately to stop this fever, lest it should dissolve and corrupt the blood, and become a putrid fever: If it is not accompanied with a diarrhœa, a vomit of ipecacuan may be given, joined with a few grains of rhubarb: If there is a looseness, the same medicine may be repeated the following morning, and even sometimes the third day. Through the day may be given a little of the strengthening elixir described in the preceding section; and in the evening, when the patient has had a vomit in the morning, half a dram or two scruples of the following anodyne powder may be administered; _Virginian snakeroot, zedoary, of an eleosaccharum made with the essential oil of fennel, of each two scruples; calcined hartshorn, sixteen grains; cynogloss pills, four and twenty grains_. Afterwards I gave every day some of the strengthening elixir, a compounded powder of the bark, and a strengthening decoction. The powder consists of _two drams of bark, one dram of sal ammoniac, and a dram of an eleosaccharum, made with the essential oil of fennel_. The ingredients for the strengthening decoction are as follow: _The herbs of fluellin, baum and yarrow, of each half an ounce; of that of mint, two drams; chamomile flowers, an ounce; those of red poppy, half an ounce; orange peel, two drams; shavings of sassafras, cassia lignea, carvy seed, of each a dram; bark, four ounces; and Virginian snakeroot, one ounce_. These ingredients must be properly cut small, bruised and mixed together. By the above medicines the fever is commonly relieved[23]. FOOTNOTES: [23] Mr. Bilguer having seen the good effects of this composition, inserts it according to the form he made use of; and without doubt, it is a very efficacious medicine: But it might be rendered much more simple without imparing its virtues; and simple medicines, in my opinion, are preferable on every occasion, but particularly so in hospitals. TISSOT. SECT. XXIV.