This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
The night-sweats which are so profuse and exhausting in the later stages of phthisis and in some conditions of debility, are often controlled by sponging the body with warm vinegar night and morning.
 
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