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the vomiting, but a clyster of it given every hour in
order to promote the purging.
After these evacuations have been continued for
some time, a decoction of toasted oat-bread may be
drunk to stop the vomiting. The bread should be
toasted till it is of a brown colour, and afterwards
boiled in spring water. If oat-bread cannot be had,
wheat-bread, or oat-meal well toasted, may be used in
its stead. If this does not put a stop to the vomiting,
two table-spoonsful of the saline julep, with ten drops
of laudanum, may be taken every hour till it ceases.
The vomiting and purging however ought never to
be stopped too soon. As long as these discharges do
not weaken the patient, they are salutary, and may
be allowed to go on, or rather ought to be promoted.
But when the patient is weakened by the evacuations,
which may be known from the sinking of his pulse,
&c. recourse must immediately be had to opiates, as
recommended above ; to which may be added strong
wines, with spirituous cinnamon-waters, and other
generous cordials. Warm negus, or strong wine-whey,
will likewise be necessary to support the patient’s
spirits, and promote the perspiration. His legs should
be bathed in warm water, and afterwards rubbed with
flannel cloths, or wrapped in warm blankets, and warm
bricks applied to the soles of his feet. Flannels
wrung out of warm spirituous fomentations should
likewise be applied to the region of the stomach.
When the violence of the disease is over, to prevent
a relapse, it will be necessary for some time to con¬
tinue the use of small doses of laudanum. Ten or
twelve drops may be taken in a glass of wine, at least
twice a day, for eight or ten days. The patient's
food ought to be nourishing, but taken in small quan¬
tities, and he should use moderate exercise. As the
stomach and intestines are generally much weakened,