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For which reafon they give rather mild, than 

 efficacious ones, and ad the part of fpedators, 

 rather than phyficians. 



For this reafon perhaps the difciples of Stahl 

 rejedl the barky though from ignorance 

 of botany they ufe the cafcarilla^ which is 

 certainly a very good medicine in fhiver- 

 ings, but not totally void of malignity. 

 Phyficians did not for a long while pre- 

 fume to prefcribe the wild cucumber •, which 

 is indeed pretty violent, but by no means 

 fo terrible, that it o\^ht not to be ufed 

 even in the dropfy. For the fame rea- 

 fon they did not venture to ufe the fquilh 

 whofe vertue is very great in thining vif- 

 cidities •, viz. becaufe they did not know 

 the proper dofe of either of them. The 

 gamboge is negledled, though the Turks 

 have taught us its efficacy in a quartan ; 

 and the experiments of our prefident in 

 the hofpital at Stockholm have confirm- 

 ed their practice. 



7- 

 Small dofes of fhyfic. For while phyfician>s 



have been over-cautious in their preicriptions, 



they have fallen into the inconvenience of 



doing the patient no fervice -, and to confcfs 



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