Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine

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* The practice of Dr Clarke, of Edinburgh, was, to confine his patients to their bed, where he kept them in a continued sweat for 48 hours. But Dr Whytt adopted a different plan, by which he never failed to cure. He bled frequently with numerous leeches apply’d to the joints affected, he clensed the alimentary canal with refrigerating cathartics, and he put a blister to the part occasionally, forbiding the use of animal food and fermented liquors at the same time.