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that is produces sweat and agreeable sleep and assirts the
operation of the bark, he says it is more usefull than any
other medicine, then he exhibited some after the hot fit
commenced, and observed it never did harm though it
might have sometimes done no good he thought it a
verry good preparation with the bark, when the patient
was costive he gave Ʒi [1 dram] Tinct. Sacra. and if the patient had
taken a vomit he waited for some time. Professor Botance
of London gave opium in intermittants with great advantage.
I cannot say from my own observation that Linds practice
was incorrect but I should not like to follow it. I have
obseved that opium increases the pain in the head after
the hot fit had subsided, this opinion of the impropriety
of opium in the hot stage is by no means peculiar to me.
Dr of Niagara gave anodoyne draughts he combined then
with some neutral salts, and thought they mitigated
the violence of a paroxysm of an intermittant, opium
frequently does much good, the former diminishes the
narcotic power of the latter, but not its antispasmodic powers,
perhaps too it increases its sudorific effects. I learned