_Take a pipkin, or a tin sauce-pan, with a quart of water, a
pint of vinegar, and two spoonfuls of honey; then take a funnel
that will pretty well cover the vessel; then take a piece of
iron, or some old nails, or a little stone, or what you have
handy; heat it red hot, and put it into the pipkin, and put on
the funnel so that steam may ascend through it. Over this let
the patient hold his mouth, so that he breathes nothing but the
steam; and to secure it the better, put something over his head,
that he may reap the more the benefit of it. When the steam
ceases, heat it again as before. Instead of heating it with the
iron, it may be shifted with boiling, but the former is
generally more handy._
In the mean time, if the patient should by the inflammation, be deprived
of all nutriment, recourse must be had to nourishing clysters: milk in
this respect is the best; but in want of that, fowl broth may be used;
and if that is wanting, take water gruel. Milk however is superior to
all: I shall give a receipt of each kind.