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Diaphoretics

Chronic Dysentary. Charactarised by small
and mucus like evacuations, great weakness, Indigestion,
eyes week, complexion sallow, skin dry and cold, pulse feeble.
I have succeeded in affecting a cure (after every thing else
had fail'd even powerfull astringents) with Dovers Powders
alone, the disease is often kept up by a vitiated secretion from
the liver, here small doses of calomel should be combined, as
in fact the secretion from the surface is always in an inverse
proportion to that of the intestines, every complaint of this
nature must be managed by due attention to the surface.
Flannel worne next the skin, and Blisters apply'd over the
abdomen will sometimes relieve them.