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Diaphoretics

pleasant and more certain formula is this,

Rx
Lemon Juice ℥ ij [2 ounces]
Aq. Font ℥ ij [2 ounces]
Carbonate of Q.S. [as needed]
to Saturate them
Sugar Ʒ ij [2 drams]

M give one table spoonfull
every hour or two, Cold Water
was given in large draughts by
Celsus half a century ago, and it
induces the same effect as affusions
or ablutions of cold water. The patient falls into a refreshing sleep
from which he awakes in a perspiration, particularly in the hot
stage of fevers when the temperature is very high. Hancocks
celebrated febrifuge was nothing more than 1 qt of Cold Water drank