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But, if they progress gradually, they are to take exercises in the erect state of the body for the benefit of the chest and shoulders; the chironomy,See Oribasius, vi. 30, and p.663, ed. Bussemaker and Daremberg. the throwing of the halteres; leaping, and the well-regulated contortions of the body accompanying it; friction, first and last of the limbs, of the head in the middle of the process.
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The process of pitchingSee Paulus Ægineta, t.i. p. 82, Syd. Soc. Edit. is to be frequently applied to the head; and also rubefacients, sometimes rubbing in mustard with double quantity of bread, so that the heat may not be intolerable; and sometimes other medicines are to be so used, like the compound from lemnestis, euphorbium, and pellitory. The juice of thapsia, and the medicines made with it which produce swelling of the skin, and an eruption resembling vari, are beneficial both for allaying present pain and contributing to eradicate the evil.
