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Diaphoretics

last should be often changed in this disease but more essentially
in acute disease and in fevers.

When properly exhibitted there are no class of medicines of more
general application, determining the blood to the surface,
removing congestion, promoting secretion, relaxing the cappillaries, and
ivigorating the absorbents, being of so general efficacy it is at once
evident they should be judiciously employ'd, but their long and
approved use has introduced them among the vulgar who
employing them indiscriminately have brought them into much disrepute,
their long continued use often lays the foundation of much
worse diseases by the artificial debility induced. They are of
so much importance that I will proceed to speak a few words
of the diseases in which they are used.

In Fevers. The Intermittant fever most generally ending in a
sweating stage has led a Physicians to induce artificial Sweating