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Diaphoretics

warm and cordial Stimulants internally, with powerfull one
externally are generally used, tho often they have no effect at
all, from the great insensibility of the system, the symptoms
now become worse, the pulse quick and small, eyes glassy,
peculia haggard, languid countenance, occasional delirium, dry
skin &c. In this state they often lay 8 or 10 days even
weeks under the exhibition of Vol. Alkali, wine, capsicum, hot
toddy &c. And now stimulating Sudorifics are indicated.

Contagious Fevers. Or rather fevers produced by
contageon, they are admirably adapted. The humoral
Pathologists were of opinion that they depended upon a particular
morbid matter generated in the system or received from without