In podgy many of the symptoms have a resemblance to those of apoplexy ; it will be distinguished from apoplexy, however, by the pulse, which, in this disease, is slow and soft, and by the other symptoms. If it arise from the causes producing apoplexy, it must necessarily be treated in the manner just recommended. When the apoplectic symptoms are removed, and hemiplegia or paralysis only remains, or when it arises from diminished energy of the nervous system, it will be proper to prescribe internal and external stimu lants. Of the former class are, white mus tard seeds, slightly bruised or swallowed whole, in the quantity of a large table spoonful, three or four times a day, or horse-reddish scraped, a table-spoonful of which may be swallowed without chew ing, night and morning, or they may be combined and made into an infusion, by macerating two ounces of each in a quart of boiling water for four hours, and add ing two ounces of the spirit of pimento to the strained liquor, of which two or three ounces may be given three or four times a day ; thc arnica montana is strong ly recommended ; the volatile alkali is often of service, and sumach is deserving a trial ; from half a grain to three or four grains or more of the dried leaves are directed tube given two or three times a day : of the latter class of stimulants are, blisters, friction of the parts affected with mustard, zther, volatile alkali, linimen tum ammonia fortius, or the oleum tere.
binthina, combined with the oleum suc cini and tincture of cantharides ; sting ing with nettles and electricity ; both sparks and shocks will be of considerablo service, particularly if employed early in the disease ; flannel. must be worn next the skin ; warm sea-bathing, and friction with flannel or the flesh-brush, will be useful auxiliaries. if the disease appear to have arisen in consequence of intern. penance, the liver will most probably be found to be more or less in a diseased state, which will he known by referring to the diagnostic remarks in the article Diararics, in which case, some of the preparations of mercury may be given with much advantage, employing after. wards hitters, bark, and chalybeates; the diet should be light, nourishing and sti mulating. The bath waters are very ser. viceable, both by the mouth, and as a bath, particularly so if the disease have arisen from intemperance, or the colic& pictonum ; should there, however, be a constitutional determination to the head, we must strictly attend to the effects which the bath waters produce upon the system, • as they may suddenly induce much mischief.