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doubtful to which clafs of fymptoms we ought 

 principally to attend, and in fuch cafes fome expe- 

 rienccd perfon fhould be confulted ; but in general 

 the hidden debility of body, and dejection of mind, 

 that ufually come on at the accefs of the fever, the 

 red watery eye, and the tendency to perfpiration or 

 other evacuations, fufficiently djftinguifh this com- 

 plaint from thofe of the inflammatory kind. The 

 nervous fever feems to be only an inferior degree 

 of the putrid or malignant. It is principally dif- 

 tinguifhed by the weaknefs and dejection of mind 

 that attend it. 



The ulcerated fore-throat is another complaint 

 that may be found in every fituation, as it is capable 

 of being propagated by contagion. The difference 

 of this from the inflammatory fore-throat is now 

 well underftood and generally known -, but there is 

 another complaint that refembles it very much, 

 which requires a very different mode of treatment, 

 of which I mall fpeak hereafter. In both, however, 



bleeding is improper. No cafe requires the ufe 



of the lancet more than the common cold, if at- 

 tended with cough and pain of the bread or fide. 

 Thefe fymptoms, if neglected, frequently terminate 

 in confumptions, which might eafily have been pre- 

 vented by fome evacuation of this kind, joined to 

 common care, whilft the complaint was recent. 



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