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Diaphoretics

practice to take patients in the hot stage of Typhus Fever to a
shower bath of cold water with the constant effect of inducing sweat,
this was constantly the practice of Dr Gregory of Edinburgh, and
it was also used in fever of high Febrile action. We come now to the
second class or those which relax the surface of which we have very
few. The Neutral Salts of antimony form a verry important
one giving at the same time diluent drinks. The following is the
formula

Rx
Sulphate of Soda ℥ i [1 ounce]
Tart Antimoni grs ij [2 grains]
Lemon Juice ℥ij [2 ounces]
Aq Fontana Ʒ iv [4 drams]

M well and give a
table spoonfull every
two hours if given often
it is apt to puke and