in to abate, he allows them to
eat boiled Chicken, or other light Food; but says they must
live every third Day on Whey, till their Strength returns.
_Precess. Integr. de Rheumatismo_.

[61] A Remark of Dr. _Huxham_'s deserves to be taken Notice
of here: He tells us, that there are some Kinds of
Rheumatisms, _viz._ those which come from a sharp serous
Rheum, which do not bear the free Use of the Lancet; that
plentiful Bleeding does more Hurt than Good; and that, in
such Cases, the Medicines which bring out breathing Sweats,
and at the same Time correct the Acrimony of the Blood,
joined with gentle Opiates, have a much better Effect. _De
Aere_, Vol. II. p. 185.

[62] Dr. _Brocklesby_, in his _Observations on military
Diseases_, recommends the Use of large Quantities of Nitre
dissolved in Water Gruel, or Sage Tea, (in the Proportion of
two Drachms of the Nitre to a Quart of the Liquor) in acute
Rheumatisms. He says, "I am assured from numberless
Instances, that in stout young Men, by taking six hundred
Grains (ten Drachms) daily, for four or five Days
successively, and diluting plentifully, as before
recommended, plain Nitre proves the most powerful and best
Sudorific, in such Complaints, that I have ever tried; and
this Quantity, and even more, may be retained in the Stomach,
and pass through the Course of the Circulation, by only
diluting properly with those thin attenuating Beverages as
before recommended. Such Quantities, in three or four Days,
seldom failed wonderfully to relieve the Patient, and very
often to cure him entirely, by the most plentiful and profuse
Sweats." _See from p. 116, to p. 124._

I have never hitherto given Nitre in such large Quantities as
here recommended by Dr. _Brocklesby_.

After some Days, if the Pains still remained, we continued the saline
Draughts with Nitre throughout the Day; and in the Evening endeavoured
to promote a free Perspiration by Means of the mild Diaphoretics,
such as the mindereri Draughts with Mithridate, in Doses frequently
repeated; at the same Time, the Patient kept in Bed, and drank freely
of mild diluting Liquors. Sometimes we gave twenty, thirty, or forty
Drops of Spirits of Hartshorn, in repeated Draughts of warm Barley
Water: or a like Quantity of the Antimonial Wine, used in the same
Manner: or from sixty to a hundred Drops of the Ant