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the difeafe is rife, or has any other
canfe to believe that he has the leail
veftige o f it exifling in his body, either
hy inheritance, or through his
own fault, fliould, both in his diet
and in his whole manner of life, avoid
whatever is likely to contribute to it,
or render his body more liable to receive
the infection, with the ntmofl
caution. He mufl keep himfelf extremely
clean ; immediately put on
dry cloaths, whenever thofe on his
back become wet ; eat no other food
but what is eafily digefled, and abflain
from all oily rancid whale’s flefli, and
the like. He mufl eat no half-rotten
fifli, nor their inteflhies and livers, e f pecially
i f they are in a putrid flate :
on the contrary, he muil coniine himfelf
to bread, roots, green herbs, cabbages,
turnips, and fallad o f gentian a
campeftris, forrel (rumex acetofa, L.)
rumex crifpus. See. &c. He mufl
eat foups, boiled frefli meat, with
fcurvy-grafs, fedum acre, and the
like. He mufl make ufe o f baths of
the decocflioii o f juniper, dry baths o f
juniper, &c. In the fame manner
gntimonial remedies would be very
2 ufeful;
;
f.
ufeful ; and even Swieten’s mercurial
mixtures, pills o f an extracl of hemlock
(pilulæ altérantes Plunierii) and
ledum paluflre. I have likewife obferved
with pleafure, that a girl in
the parifli o f Wefler Hanninge was
cured o f a commencing elephantiaiis
in the year 1774, by making ufe,
during a long time, o f Huxham’s antimonial
effence, with a decoélion o f
antifcorbutic herbs.
But every one will eafily apprehend,
that poor wretched people, who are
naturally moil expofed to thefe and
the like difeafes, are likewife entirely
incapable o f averting them by obferving
a proper diet and manner o f
life, which are, however, almofl the
only remedies. Befides, thefe kind of
people are generally carelefs of any
illnefs fo long as they are able to flir ;
they likewife feldom confuk a phyii-
cian, and when they do, it is out of
their power to follow his prefcriptions
exactly. Some perfons attacked with it
have, however, been freed of it, after
having had the finall-pox. It might,
therefore, bexonjeclured, that patients
afflided
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