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wherefore to avoid a Gangrene, he was {carified with deep Incifions, 
and had Pledgets of Agyptiacun diffolv’d in Sp. VY. applied, but 
although with this, and a Fomentation of Wormwood, er. ina 
Lye, and Sp. V. it feem’d to be at a ftand, yet it {phacelated more 
and more, and he being fo weak as not to endure the Amputation 
of his Arm, he died. 
The Reverend Mr. Leming, of a Plethoric and Sanguine Contti- 
tution, aged about Forty five years, by walking in the heat of 
the day, expofed to the Sun-beams, was taken ill with a very 
great Vertigo, fo that he was reeling every ftep, and could not fee to 
Read or do any thing elfe, neither could he walk without the afii- 
ftance of feveral people under his Arms to fupport and guide him. 
He had been two days in this condition, neither had he taken any 
Of a very ching but a Clyfter. I wondered very much that in fo long time he 
ny Yer bad not been Apoplectic, and ordered him immediately to be bled 
in the Arm to Ten Ounces, the next morning to take a pretty 
ftrong Dofe of Extr. Rud. in Pills, that he fhould be bliftered pre- 
fently in the Neck , afterwards cupd with Scarification in the 
Shoulders, and that he fhould take fome alternative Medicines, as 
Sage and Rofemary made into a Drink after che manner of Tea, and 
drink a quantity of it feveral times every day at convenient Seafons. 
I order’d fome drops of Sp. CC. to be put into it, and gave him dire- 
étions to change and repeat thefe Medicines till he was well, which 
accordingly he did. He found immediate relief on bleeding, and 
by the ufe of the reft of thefe Medicines recovered in fome days his 
perfect healeh: 
Of aCon- The fame Gentleman, in preaching ufed to ftrain his Lungs fo 
sre tape much, that he became obnoxious to feveral Coughs and defluxions. 
ftraining J advisd him to remove from his Parifh, where he ufed his Lungs 
the Lungs. 
too much, to a place where no opportunity fhould be given of ex- 
ercifing them fo much. By this method he wasrelieved. I heard 
fince, that returning to his Parifh he fell into a fpitting of blood, 
turn’d Confumptive and died. I have feen the like happen feveral 
times to people who have in their feveral Profeffions ufed their Lungs 
too much, The ancient Phyficians, and Philofophers prefcribed 
Reading aloud, Difputing, ec. as neceffary for exercifing the Lungs, 
which they thought as proper for the keeping of them found as 
other Exercifes for other parts of the Body. But I have often ob- 
ferved that the immoderate ftraining of them by Singing, Hunting, 
Trumpeting, inviting People to Shows,ésc. have by degrees brought 
Hoarinefles, Coughs, Confumptions, great pains, UI 
the Sternum, and Death. P a g P INS, cers under the 
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