But it should be observed, that, in the Beginning of Rheumatic Fevers, forced Sweats generally did Hurt, and often increased both the Pain and Fever; and that in general we had greater Success, and made speedier Cures, when we did not attempt to promote Sweating, till after other Evacuations had been sufficiently made, and the Fever had begun to abate; and that in this Fever, when we did attempt to procure Sweats, the milder Diaphoretics, with Plenty of weak diluting Liquors, answered better than those of a more heating Nature; though after the Fever was gone, and the Pains still continued, sometimes the stronger Sudorifics, such as G. Guaiac, and its volatile Tincture, _Dover_’s Powder, and the like, best answered the Purpose, and carried off the Distemper, when the milder ones had little Effect. I have often observed, where Sweating made no Change in the Distemper, that keeping up a free Perspiration by Means of the Decoction of the Sarsaparilla with the Antimonial Wine, or small Doses of the _pulvis antimonialis_ (_gr._ v.), given twice or thrice a Day, removed Rheumatisms, which had resisted the Force of other Remedies. Sometimes the cold Bath[63] removed Pains which had not yielded to internal Medicines; but it ought to be observed, that when Patients went into the cold Bath while the Feverishness still remained, and the Blood continued sizy, or before free Evacuations had been made, oftentimes, instead of giving Relief, it made the Disorder worse, and more obstinate[64]. [63] I have frequently ordered the warm Bath with Advantage in Rheumatic Cases in _St. George_’s Hospital; but we had no Convenience of this Kind with the flying Hospital in _Germany_. [64] This I have seen many Instances of, particularly in the Case of _Ann Walker_, a Woman of twenty three Years of Age, who was under my Care in _St. George_’s Hospital, in _May_, 1759. Before she came to the Hospital, she had been blooded, and had gone into the cold Bath four Times, which, she told me, had increased her Pains to a violent Degree; in which State she had continued for some Weeks before she came to the Hospital; but by being blooded, and taking the cooling saline Medicines, with gentle Purges, and mild Diaphoretics, she got well in a Month’s Time.