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ly, and wafted faft, without any increafed 

 evacuation. Sometimes, prefT^^d with their 

 illnefs, tKey were obliged to take refuge 

 in bed for a day ; which gave juft fo 

 much relief as enabled theni to keep up 

 a few days longer ; when the fame ne-- 

 ceffity again forced them to bed, and 

 with the fame relief. Thus, fometimes 

 better, fometimes worfe, they went on a 

 great while. Some have been known to 

 languilh under it a year, and, at laft, re- 

 cover, without any affidance. 



In fuch a fituation were thofe, in other 

 places, who, as 1 was informed, long af-. 

 ter the original difeafe feemed to be gone, 

 the diftinguiihing fymptoms of it being 

 gone, continued in a languifliing ftate, 

 under fome other malady they imagined 

 and the event was doubtful. The firft idea 

 of the dileafe feems to have been loft in 

 the change of appearances, though effen- 

 tially It remained the fame. A proof of 

 this we have in in the method of cure, 

 which was alike in all cafes. For, not-. 

 Whftanding the change, and an impro- 

 per treatnaent, the difeafe, even in thefa 



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