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