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Perfons employed in daily labour of a healthy 

 kind, and living on coarfe food, naturally become 

 robutt and athletic, of a firm fibre and denfe blood. 

 Hence inflammatory complaints are in fuch habits 

 more common than thofe of the putrid kind ; and 

 fuch as are attended with low ipirits and other 

 hypochondriacal fymptoms, are rarely met with. 

 Evacuations may of courfe be ufed with more fafety 

 among fuch people than among the effeminate in- 

 habitants of populous towns. 



Bleeding in the fevers that occur among country 

 people, is for the mod part necelTary, efpecially in 

 fuch as are attended with local inflammation, as 

 pleurify, peripneumony, or inflammation of any of 

 the vifcera. In fuch cafes, twelve, fourteen, fix- 

 teen, or even twenty ounces of blood, may, and 

 often ought, to be drawn at one time. The quan- 

 tity, however, cannot be determined by any general 

 rule, but muft be regulated by the age, ftrength, fex, 

 and conftinution of the patient, but principally by 

 the urgency of the fymptoms. If the internal pain 

 be very acute, the fkin hot and dry, and the pulfe 

 exceed no beats in a minute, a large bleeding is 

 generally neceilary, efpecially if any other fymptom 

 of a fatiguing or dangerous kind, as a violent cough, 

 or fhortnefs of breath, be prefent. 



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