However, if with all the care that may be taken, it should be found impossible to bear the milk, I should advise trying butter-milk. I prescribed it with success for a young man, in whom certain symptoms of vergency to the hypochondriac disorder deterred me from a recourse to milk itself. The bilious drink the butter-milk with pleasure, and are always the better for it; and indeed it ought always to be preferred to milk, where there is a great deal of heat, a feverishness, an eresipelatous disposition; but it is especially of very great service when the venereal excesses produce an acute fever, such as was that of which RAPHAEL died. Notwithstanding the weakness in these erotic fevers, the tonics would be hurtful; bleeding is dangerous: the famous JOHNSTON, who died Baron of Ziebendorff, above fourscore years ago, positively forbad it in this case[127]. Too cooling a method of cure does not succeed, as the observation of M. VANDERMONDE proves, and as I have myself seen; but the butter-milk is of service, provided it is not too unctuous. It calms, it dilutes, it sweetens, it assuages the thirst, it refreshes, and at the same time nourishes and strengthens, which is of great importance in this case; one symptom of which is, that strength melts away in it with an inconceivable quickness. M. GILCHRIST, who does not lay any great stress on milk in a hectic, commends greatly the use of butter-milk in that very disorder[128]. Since my last edition of this work, published about four years ago, (it being now 1764,) I have been consulted by several persons in a state of enervity or debility. Some have been intirely cured. Many have received considerable relief; others none at all. When the disease is got to a certain head, the most that can be hoped for is, that the remedies will stop the progress of the disorder. Of the successes of some of my patients I have remained unacquainted. In almost all my treatment of these cases, milk has been the principal aliment; while the bark, martials, chalybeate waters, and the cold bath have been the remedies. Some patients I put intirely into a milk diet; others only took it once or twice a day.