1. Bleeding.
2. Purging.
3. Cool air and cold drinks.
4. Cold water applied to the external parts of the body, and to the bowels by means of glysters.
II. In creating a diversion of congestion, inflammation, and serous effusion, from the brain and viscera to the mouth, by means of a salivation, and to the external parts of the body, by means of blisters.
III. In restoring the strength of the system, by tonic remedies.
I proceed to make a few remarks upon the remedies set down under each of the above heads.
I. I have taken notice that this fever differed from the fever of 1793, in coming forward in July and August with a number of paroxysms, which refused to yield to purging alone. I therefore began the cure of every case I was called to by bleeding.
I shall mention the effects of this remedy, and the circumstances, manner, and degrees in which I used it occasionally, in this fever, in my Defence of Blood-letting. Under the present head I shall only furnish the reader with a table of the quantity of blood drawn from a number of my patients in the course of the disease. From several of them the quantity set down was taken in three, four, and five days. I shall afterwards describe the appearances of the blood.