After Evacuations, if the Pulse kept up, we commonly gave nothing but the saline Draughts, with the _Pulvis contrayervæ_, or some temperate Medicine, for the first Day or two. As soon as we could distinguish the Fever to be of the malignant kind, and that the Pulse rather sunk, we joined some of the Cordials to the saline Medicines, and allowed the Patient more or less Wine, according to the Degree of the Fever. Dr. _De Haen_ has found Fault with Dr. _Pringle_ and Dr. _Huxham_, for administering cordial Medicines and Wine in the low State of this Fever; but nothing answered so well with us as these Remedies under such Circumstances; and I have frequently seen every Symptom changed for the better by their Use; and even when I gave the Bark, in the Manner recommended by _De Haen_, I often found it necessary to join the free Use of Wine[9], Cordials and Blisters[10], in order to support the Patient’s Strength. [9] _Petrus a Castro_, in his Account of a Petechial Fever, which was frequent at _Verona_, tells us, that the Sick had a great Thirst, and an Aversion to Meat, but all of them had the strongest Desire for Wine, and were perpetually asking for it, even those who at other Times used to be 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.