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Diaphoretics

teaspoonfull. I give from ℥fs [½ ounce] to ℥i [1 ounce] just as the patient is going to bed
directing him to drink hot beverages therby inducing a copious
sweat. The dose has been too small and much of its inefficacy
may be imputed to that. It was introduced into practice in
arthritic affections by a Frenchman of the West Indies, and there
is no doubt that in Wandering gout often attacking the stomach
with cramp, it is highly usefull to relieve the present and prevent
future attack how the dose must be much smaller, two teaspoonfulls