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It is proper here to remark, that as foon as the 

 nature of the complaint is fo far afcertained as to 

 prove bleeding to be indicated, it is of confequcnce 

 that fuch operation be performed as foon as poftible, 

 and that a fufficient quantity be drawn at one time. 

 One plentiful bleeding will fometimes fubdue a dif- 

 eafe at its firft appearance, when if half the quantity 

 only had been taken, it would have required per- 

 haps to be repeated feveral times. It often, how- 

 ever, and indeed generally happens, in fevers at- 

 tended with local inflammation, that one bleeding, 

 however judicioufly managed in refpect of quantity, 

 is not fufficient. In fuch cafes we muft be governed 

 nearly altogether by the urgency of the fymptoms, 

 and when thefe indicate a farther evacuation to be 

 necefTary, we muft proceed, not indeed without re- 

 gard to other circumftances, but neverthelefs as 

 confidering them as fubfervient only to the princi- 

 pal object. An attention to this circumftance is 

 efpecially proper, when the parts that are the feat 

 of the complaint are immediately neceffary to life, 

 as in inflammations of the brain, lungs, bowels, or 

 any of the vifcera j in fuch cafes there is no time 

 to be loft, and what many would think bold prac- 

 tice, is indeed the only means of efcape. It is 



proper indeed to be careful, that the complaint 

 originally be of fuch a nature as to require bleeding 



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