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Credit: A treatise on the principal diseases of Dublin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the vomiting occurs immediately upon taking the purgative) and sometimes the effort of vomiting will give temporary relief by unloading the stomach. In delicate stomachs the saline mixture sometimes gives little relief, then a little burnt brandy will prove a grateful cordial; but the most effectual of all cordials is generally a little ice-cream. A thinly sliced lemon with some white sugar powdered on it, is a vulgar and yet a grateful remedy for cleaning the tongue and inside of the mouth. The above treatment, in most instances, com- pletely removes the disease without the necessity of resorting to other medicines. The com- plexion becomes gradually more clear; the pulse more soft and slow ; the tongue cleaner towards the edges, softer, and of a natural colour; the stools lose their dark colour and unnatural morbid fsetor ; the tension, and pain, and fulness of the belly subside ; appetite begins to return; the urine, before scanty and high-coloured, now increases in quantity and deposits a sediment % the eye and countenance assume a natural expres- sion ; sleep gradually gains upon the harrassed patient and becomes profound and refreshing; tiie breathing, before somewhat hurried, now is s]qw and regular $ the speech more firm and ar- ticulate,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21000463_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
