4^2 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



fimple and uniform than the prefent ; yet, 

 from the moveable condition of the mat- 

 ter of it, which is eafily expelled or re- 

 tained, and differently determined, many 

 times it became various and perplexing. 

 Regarding it in its more genuine form, 

 as deviating from thefe, as complicated, 

 and undergoing a tranilation, fuch was 

 the diverfity of appearances in it, fo much 

 did it often affumc a refemblance to o- 

 ther diftempers, and fometimes feem to 

 be transformed into them, that it may 

 be juftly reckoned a true proceiform. 



However mild and tradlable the dif- 

 eafe was in itfelf, for, under good ma- 

 nagement, it cured itfelf, by negled or 

 mifmanagement, it frequently drew af- 

 ter it fome very uneafy, and, though rare- 

 ly, even fatal confequences. On the 

 contrary, duly treated, and timely fub- 

 mitted to, it proved, to fome, a means of 

 better health than they enjoyed before. 

 Indeed, it might have been expedled, that 

 fuch an univerfal depuratory fever fhould 

 have brought about a general confirmed 

 ftate of health for a long time. And 



this, 



