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ooling Medicines, such as Nitre, the saline or mindereri Draughts, mixed at Times with Sperma Ceti, or some other of the mild Pectorals. [55] In private Practice, at this Stage of the Disorder, the Use of Asses Milk, and drinking the _Bristol_ Water at the _Bristol_ Wells, and riding on Horseback daily, are justly ranked amongst the most efficacious Remedies; and going into the more southern Climates, as the South of _France_, _Portugal_, or _Italy_, where the Air is warmer, more constant, and dry, than in _England_, has often been found to produce good Effects. The opening a Vein, and taking away from four to eight Ounces of Blood[56], whenever the Pain of the Breast was troublesome, or the Patient was hot and restless at Nights from the Hectic Fever, gave the greatest Relief of any Thing we tried; and these repeated small Bleedings were so far from wasting the Patient's Strength, that they rather seemed to prevent its being exhausted so fast as otherwise it would have been, by allaying the Force of the Hectic Fever. [56] This Practice has been strongly recommended by Dr. _Mead_, in his _Monita Medica_, Sect. x. and by an anonymous Author in the _Edinburgh Medical Essays_, Vol. IV. Art. 28. and Dr. _Mead_ says, when Things have not been quite desperate, he has seen good Success from it. At this Stage of the Disorder, we put in Setons, or ordered Issues, to serve as a Drain to carry off the Matter, and found them of Advantage in some Cases. When the Patients complained of any fixed Pain, we always made the Issues as near the Part affected as possible[57]. On the 5th of _May_, 1762, a Man, belonging to the Eighty-eighth Regiment of Foot, was sent to the Hospital at _Bremen_ for an Haemoptoe, attended with a constant hectic Heat and Fever.--After being blooded, and using the cooling Remedies without Success, he had four Pea Issues made in his Back; and had a slight Decoction of the Cortex, acidulated with Spirit of Vitriol. As soon as the Issues began to discharge freely, the hectic Heat, Fever, and Spitting of Blood, diminished daily; and he recovered his Health and Strength in a short Time. However, it ought to be observed, that although these Drains are sometimes efficacious, yet, when the Disease is far advanced, the Mischief is generally too deep rooted for them to be of any Service. [57] In _June_, 1748, a Servant Girl came to ask my Advice for
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