u2. CUUPEPER’STENGLISH ‘PHY SICRAN, 
vations are moft beneficial, and fucceed beft: The fame caution is:neceffary in the 
exhibition ef fudorifics and all analeptics, which convey heat and motion to the 
blood; for, if the pulfe:is rong and frequent, fuch fpirituous fubftances do more 
injury than good, they rarefy the blood too much,. and accelerate its inteftine mo- 
tion; by which means a delirium and-other.inflammations,are frequently ‘brought 
on. Great circum{pection and attention to the.pulfe is alfo requifite in the exhibition 
of narcotics or opiates; for, as thefe are poflefied of a power of ftopping the motion 
of the blood and fpirits, and-confequently of impairing Rrength, fothey ought never _ 
to be exhibited when the in is ae nani aut enum ‘anes are to bigs annie 
mere fol eit bas pistteds to & set acy sor! esa beth 
Or DISEASES IN GENERAL, THEIR PREVENTION, AND > CURE. 
DISEASE introduced the art of Medicine, which ina primitive fenfe, communi- 
cates the means of preferving health when prefent, and. of reftoring it when loft. . If 
we look back into the origin of the medical. art, .we fhall find ‘its firft foundations to © 
be owing to the accidental events, and natural inftingt. In the.early. -ages, the fick 
were placed in crofs ways, and other public places, to receive the advicerof fuch - 
paflengers as knew a remedy fuitable to their complaints; and, the better to pre- 
ferve the memory of every remarkable cure, both the difeafe and the remedy were 
engraved on pillars, that patients.in the like cafes might refort to them for inftruc- 
tionand relief. Hence an infight into. eRe virtues of, herbs and eam ag 
minerals, was originally acquired... fe 
As tothe ee ats ant aN ine, itfeem: 
4 have confifted in obferving, 1. That difeafes attended with particular apiabteiatse, 
called fymptoms, were fometimes cured without the affiftance of art, by {pontancous _ 
“evacuations, as hemorrhages, diarrhoeas, vomitings, or fweats; whence bleeding, 
“purges, and vomits, took. weit seni Qs That the padiante:s were poet peril ~ Se 
ie =~ iraihed by art, employe to free the. conti tion n from | 
canary cacy in different cor 
, defpife the cumberfome,load of recipes, with th wich pri 
‘much extolled medicines of theche- 
writers of an-inferior rank abc 
mitts, and attempt the relief of pati 
