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fat of the teeth ; but the exceptions to sta tule 
are numerous. An unufual dilatation of the pupil 
of the eye, is the moft certain charaCeriftic.* 
§ 32. Sydenham afferts, that the bate did not — 
more certainly cure an intermittent, than riding did 
a confumption. We muft not deny the truth of an 
affertion, from fuch authority, but we muft conclude 
_that the difeafe was more eafily curable a century 
“ago than it is at prefent. 
~ § 33. If the Digitalis is no longer ufeful in con- 
fimptive cafes, it muft be that I know not how to 
manage it, or that the difeafe is more fatal than for- 
$ 34: Whi phthifis is ecemeeti with axiatiréa: 
or when there is reafon to fufpe& hydrothorax, the 
Digitalis will often relieve the — and. pro- 
long the ae of the — 
§.35. Many 
: * Mony years ago I communicated to my friend, Dr. Percival, 
_an account of fome trials of breathing fixed air in confumptive 
cafes, The refults were publifhed by him in the fecond Vol. of 
his very ufeful Effays Medical and Experimental, and have fince 
been copied into other publications. I take this opportunity of © 
_ acknowledging that I fufpect mayitlf to have becn v1 
lieve it was a ates oa and not atrae —_ thif 
The Vomica is almoft alway 
fmell of the matter, and very 
_ My patients not only in ire 
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