No. XXIII

_Take warm water one pint, or something more; in which scrape

about one ounce of castile or hard soap, and let it perfectly

dissolve; then add a spoonful of honey to it, and let it be as

warm as that it may be easily borne to your cheek._

Let the patient keep this clyster within him as long as he can, till it

comes away with a stool.

If the patient is sick at the stomach, a vomit of _ipecacuanha_ (S) or

No. XXVI, will be very proper, and nothing in such a case can be given

more safety and better advantage; for it is not only the stomach that

gets relieved, but the whole body is brought thereby into perspiration,

by the universal strain it occasions. After the vomit, or after the

clyster, give the following draught.

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