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HOWEVER, at last it often happens, that tho’ the grosser HUMOURS are evacuated: yet some watry, serous Humours remain in the Circuit of the Body, too much refrigerating and infesting it still; which are most conveniently remov’d by Sudorificks.

BUT because the compleat CURE of this Disease requires some Length of Time, I would advise proper Preparatives, Purgatives, and Corroboratives, to be exhibited by Turns; as also the very Form and Composition of the MEDICINES to be varied in their Courses, for the preventing of Nauseousness.

THE Patient’s REGIMEN, must likewise be well prescrib’d, and curiously regulated; especially her Diet. She ought to live upon Victuals of the best Nutrition, and easiest Concoction, carefully avoiding all others that are not so agreeable: Especially such as are of a frigid or humid Quality; such as Pot-herbs, Garden-Fruits, Milk Fish, &c. She may drink generous Wine, or good Ale cautiously abstaining from all small Drinks, and other such like noxious Liquids, as much as possible.