This may be given every six hours, for two days successively; and this generally will break the disorder. The patient should be made to drink as freely as he possibly can; and perspiration should ever be promoted. A blister as the case requires, may also be used with much advantage. If the body is bound, clysters may tend to incline the humours to be drawn down from the part. No. XXXV _Take Glauber’s salts_ (19), _one ounce and a half; honey_ (E), _one spoonful; hot water, a pint and a half._ Sometimes the inflammation is so very great, as to choak up both the passage of respiration, as well as that of deglutition; so that the poor afflicted patient can neither breathe, nor swallow; and is not only liable to be suffocated, but even starved to death, besides the danger from the malignant inflammation. In this exigency, have recourse to the following simple but excellent remedy. No. XXXVI _Take a pipkin, or a tin sauce-pan, with a quart of water, a pint of vinegar, and two spoonfuls of honey; then take a funnel that will pretty well cover the vessel; then take a piece of iron, or some old nails, or a little stone, or what you have handy; heat it red hot, and put it into the pipkin, and put on the funnel so that steam may ascend through it. Over this let the patient hold his mouth, so that he breathes nothing but the steam; and to secure it the better, put something over his head, that he may reap the more the benefit of it. When the steam ceases, heat it again as before. Instead of heating it with the iron, it may be shifted with boiling, but the former is generally more handy._ In the mean time, if the patient should by the inflammation, be deprived of all nutriment, recourse must be had to nourishing clysters: milk in this respect is the best; but in want of that, fowl broth may be used; and if that is wanting, take water gruel. Milk however is superior to all: I shall give a receipt of each kind. No. XXXVII _Take milk and water, of each a pint; cinamon (16), one drachm; boil them and strain the liquor; then dissolve one ounce and an half of good loaf sugar; add six drops, of the essential oil of peppermint_ (U), _upon a little lump of sugar._ No. XXXVIII _Take half a fowl, bruise the bones, and cut the flesh small; this boil in three pints of fresh water, with about one drachm of cinamon; strain it clear, and add as before, an ounce of sugar, with a few drops of the oil of peppermint.—A tea cupful of good white wine may be added, if the patient is very weak, and not feverish._ No. XXXIX