mb: make into two pills, the dose for a
full-grown person. For the No. 1 mixture, dissolve on ounce of Epsom
salts in half a pint of senna tea: take a quarter of the mixture as a
dose] Repeat these remedies if the bowels are not well opened. Keep the
patient's head well raised, and cool as above. Give very low diet
indeed: gruel, arrowroot, and the like. When a person is recovering, he
should have blisters applied to the nape of the neck, his bowels should
be kept well open, light diet given, and fatigue, worry, and excess of
all kinds avoided.

2636. 2. _The weak kind_.--_Symptoms_. These attacks are more frequently
preceded by warning symptoms than the first kind. The face is pale, the
pulse weak, and the body, especially the hands and legs, cold. After a
little while, these symptoms sometimes alter to those of the first class
in a mild degree.--_Treatment._ At first, if the pulse is _very feeble
indeed_, a little brandy-and-water or sal-volatile must be given.
Mustard poultices are to be put, as before, to the soles of the foot and
the insides of the thighs and legs. Warm bricks, or bottles filled with
warm water, are also to be placed under the armpits. When the strength
has returned, the body become warmer, and the pulse fuller and harder,
the head should be shaved, and wet rags applied to it, as before
described. Leeches should be put, as before, to the temple opposite the
side paralyzed; and the bowels should be opened as freely and as quickly
as possible. Bleeding from the arm is often necessary in these cases,
but a non-professional person should never have recourse to it. Blisters
may be applied to the nape of the neck at once. The diet in those cases
should not be so low as in the former--indeed, it is often necessary, in
a day or so after one of these attacks, to give wine, strong beef-tea,
&c., according to the condition of the patient's strength.

2637. _Distinctions between Apoplexy and Epilepsy_.--1. Apoplexy mostly
happens in people over _thirty_, whereas epilepsy generally occurs under
that ago; at any rate for the first time. A person who has epileptic
fits over thirty, has generally suffered from them for some years. 2.
Again, _in apoplexy_, the body is paralyzed; and, therefore, has not
_the convulsions which take place in epilepsy_. 3. The peculiar
_snoring_ will also distinguish apoplexy from epilepsy.

2638. _Distinctions between Apoplexy and Drunkeness_.--1. The known
habits of the person. 2.