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In the general treatment of febrile diseases, so-called preparatives and digestives are first employed to ripen the humors, after which evacuatives (emetics, cathartics, sudorifics, and occasionally even venesection) are utilized for the discharge of these peccant humors.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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