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Diaphoretics

many prefer exciting a sweat by steem or vapor, this may
be done by pouring vinegar on hot bricks and introducing them
under the bed clothes.

Baths. Another method of inducing Diaphoresis is to
imerse the patient into a bath, there are of two kinds, Tepid, Warm,
and Hot. The first of which is apt to produce chilliness, and
completely to counteract the sweat being of a temperature less than
the natural heat. The 2d being 104 degrees of Farenheit and
consequently hotter than the temperature of the body, is admirably
adapted to many diseases, as chronic rheumatism, Epilepsy, Palsy,
Chlorosis, and lastly to all diseases depending on a torpor of the
Lymphatics as scrophula &c. In Dysentary and Diarrhea,
where more energetic means are wanted the bath may be render’d