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Rh to cool the Blood, and gain Ease by the Discharge of noxious Humours; but in the latter End, Nature is tired and exhausted, and ready, for want of Strength and Vigour, to lye down under her oppressive Burthen; and the Doctor, that would now think to raise her Power and Activity by expensive Evacuations, must have a peculiar Turn of Thought, much out of the common Way of reasoning; but of this hereafter, when I shall discourse of this Subject in its proper Place.

Twelve Hours after the Patient has been let Blood, a Vomit may be usefully prescribed, to evacuate the noxious Humours of the Stomach, that may hinder the Operation of Remedies, or by being absorbed by the Blood, may joyn with the Matter of the Disease, and encrease the Putrefaction, as well as to agitate and shake the Frame of the Nerves, and express from the Glands their putrid Contents. The Form of the vomitive Medicine may be this as follows: Take of the vomitive Indian Root half a Drachm; of Oxymel Scilliticum an Ounce, or six Drachms; of Milk-Water, or that of Carduus, three Ounces; make it into a Draught, and let the Patient, to promote its Operation, after half an Hour, drink plentifully of the Infusion of Carduus Leaves in spring Water boiling hot, when it becomes cool enough for drinking: But if the sick Person vomits freely of himself, then Dilution, with two Quarts of the Infusion I have mentioned, will be sufficient. If