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Diaphoretics

be justly Styled the Opprobrium Medicine, much which proceeds
from the too liberal use of cathartics; my practice has been after a
verry lenient cathartic to administer an anodyne diaphoretic
and the Cretaceous Mixture, after which I administer as a
tonic to the Intestines an infusion of the black berry root, the
manner of preparing the infusion is as follows.

Rx
Manipulus
Aq. Bullien lbi [1 pound]

Put them in a teapot and let them
simmer by the fire to ⅔ and then give
a desert spoonfull every two or three hours, after a little time the
bowels will become so constipated as to require a gentle laxative;
This medicine though so little known to Practitioners Is I
believe by far the best tonic we have in such cases, it is also
peculiarly adapted to the Diarrhea of Old People.