1 ior a week, or two. may be delivered ; and, in chrotate
2 diseases (especially if the patient reside at a distance)
3 medicine sufficient for a month, or more, nicy be
4 delivered.
5 The lozenge to be allowed to dissolve gently in the
6 mouth. For infants at the breast, the lozenge may be
7 crushed to a powder, and administered in a powdered
8 state, or, dissolved in a teaspoon with milk or water. As
9 the sufferings of babes are mostly occasioned by the
10 quality of the mother’s milk, she ought, invariably, to
11 take of the same medicine which is given t.o the babe;
12 for, if in apparent good health, these medical Aon Aons
13 (lozenges) cannot, under any circumstances, be injurious.
14 When the tongue of a patient is dry, as it often
15 happens in fever, and there is a deficiency of saliva, I
16 advise a little water to be taken into the mouth, to aid
17 the solution of the lozenge or powder—which is prefer¬
18 able to dissolving the medicament in a spoon.
19 As to Diet, 1 am not so rigid as other physicians. Irt
20 acute disorders there is seldom any appetite, and patients
21 never should be urged to take any nourishment without
22 appetite, much less to take what is repugnant to them.
23 Try nil the bounties ol' dm fertile globe,
24 There is not such n salutary food
25 As suit, with every stomach. Hut,
26 Taught by experience, soon you may discern
27 What pleases, what offends.
28 When in fever any desire for food exists, liquids will
29 naturally be preferred to solids, and vegetable to animal
30 food. In chronic complaints patients may indulge
31 in whatever they may have been in the habit of taking
32 —if not diametrically opposed .to their constitution.