412 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



The tongue was milky and moid, and 

 ihe urine citrine, letting down a whitilh 

 or claggy fediment. 



In this fimple form, the difeafe was 

 generally lb mild, and often triflmg in- 

 deed, that very little medicinal care was 

 necelTary, except where delicacy, orlome 

 other circumilance, demanded it. The 

 kindly warmth of the bed, moderate fweat- 

 ings, or, which the fick were difpoied to, 

 plentiful perfpiration, fuilained by pro- 

 per drinks, quietnefs, foft diet, a little 

 wine, and keeping the body eafy by cly- 

 flers or laxatives, never failed very foon 

 to carry off the diforder ; which left no 

 complaint, except a degree of weaknefs, 

 for a fhort time. 



Though this, in general, was the con- 

 ftitution of it, great varieties were ob- 

 ferved. Sometimes there was a fmall 

 degree of fever, with cough, and a kind 

 of pleuntis notha, without other catar- 

 rhal hmptoms; and thefe yielded to bleed- 

 ing, warm purges, and the empl, ca'idum 

 applied to the part. At other times, there 

 was a heavniefs, and dull pain of the 



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