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Saline Mixture

Carbonate of potassa, 2 drachms; water, 6 ounces. When the salt is dissolved , add by degrees portions of fresh lemon juice till it ceases to effervesce. A tablespoonful may be taken every half hour.

Intermittent, or Fever and Ague.

Of this fever, there are several varieties, which differ from each other only in the length of time that elapses between their attacks. There is one called quotidian, in which it comes on every twenty-four hours; another named tertian, in which it arrives every forty-eight hours, and the third quartan, because the intermission lasts seventytwo hours.