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This draught may be swallowed before the effer-vescence is quite over, and may be repeated every twohours, or oftener, if the vomiting be violent. A vio-lent vomiting has sometimes been stopped by cuppingon the i-egion of the stomach, after all other meanshad failed.

As the least motion will often bring on the vomitingagain, even after it has been stopped, the patientmust avoid all manner of action. The diet mustbe so regulated as to sit easy upon the stomach, andnothing should be taken that is hard of digestion. Wedo not, however, mean that the patient should liveentirely upon slops. Solid food, in this case, often sitseasier on the stomach than liquids.

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OF THE DIABETES, AND OTHER DISORDERS OFTHE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER.

THE diabetes is a frequent and excessive dischargeof urine. It is seldom to be met with amongyoung people; but often attacks persons in the declineof life, especially those who follow the more violentemployments, or have been hard drinkers in theiryouth.

CAUSES.—A diabetes is often the consequenceof acute diseases, as fevers, fluxes, &c. where the pa-tient has suffered by excessive evacuations: it may alsobe occasioned by great fatigue, or riding long journiesupon a hard-trotting horse, carrying heavy burdens,running, &c. It may be brought on by hard drinkiug,or the use of strong stimulating diuretic medicines, astincture of cantharides, spirits of turpentine and suchlike. It is often the effect of drinking too great quan-tities of mineral waters. Many imagine that these willdo them no service Tinless they be drank in great quan-tities, by which mistake it often happens that they oc-casion worse diseases than those they were intended to

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