_Take oatmeal, or pounded biscuit, a couple of spoonfuls; water, a quart; a small handful of raisins; a little allspice, a little mace, tied up in a fine rag; which boil together in a tin saucepan till consumed to a pint and a half; then add a gill of good wine, red or white, and sweeten it with sugar to suit the palate. You may put a little lemon peel in, to give it an agreeable flavour._ A little roasted fresh meat will hurt nobody; and broths most certainly are good, particularly if the body is costive; but when the body is inclined to looseness, I have known the best broth to produce a dangerous flux; and this should be taken notice of. If the patient however who has met with the accident is of a puny weak constitution, or has lost a sufficient quantity of blood by the wounds, bleeding then is not so requisite as in the former case; though the treatment otherwise must be equally the same. By this method of proceeding, there is little fear but that the patient will soon perfectly recover, even in the highest fever that may suddenly befall a man from an accident; provided the injury is not of a dangerous tendency. But as an acrimonious habit of body is liable on its own accord to diseases, it is easily imagined that an accident may become accessory, and heighten the malignity; hence often a fever of that kind is liable to degenerate into a malignant one, or even from the accident itself, when of a dangerous nature; and this I shall explain as I proceed. I shall therefore leave the accidental fever that proceeds from an external cause, and proceed to those which take their origin internally. ------------------------------------------- SECT. III. _Of a Cold_. The fever now to be treated of is the most common amongst mankind; especially seamen, who are ever exposed, to have the perspiration obstructed. It however would save many from the grave, and almost as many from being food for the fish, was it a little more regarded than what it actually is. The sound of a cold is so gentle, that custom has almost made it effeminacy to pay any regard to it; and yet, if we maturely examine, we shall find the most malignant, acute, and mortal diseases, first make their appearances by the symptoms of a cold,——But let us proceed to particulars. A cold is an obstruction of perspiration; which may become destructive to the animal œconomy if neglected, in so much, that it may be considered as the first foundation of most diseases.