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disturbed. But, as the cause of this disturbance is not 

 uniform in its specific relations, neither can the means 

 appealed to be without variety in their kind. To the 

 particular character of the disease, with which the preg- 

 nant female may be oppressed, the remedies, in extent 

 and nature, must be accommodated. If the powers of 

 life fall low, and she is unnerved by languor, arising 

 from luxury or poverty of diet, let her be advised to 

 suitable nutriment, cordial beverage, exhilarating com- 

 pany, and regular exercise. If the stomach be dis- 

 tressed by dyspepsia, she is directed to magnesia, alka- 

 lies, emetics, tonics, or lime-water ; to which we add 

 exercise, the first and best mode of infusing vigour into 

 the svstem, with all its organs. If the bowels be slow, 

 aperients are pressed into service. If the body be raised 

 in its action by too high stimulation, general or local, 

 the circulation is to be tamed, the system tranquillized, 

 the rigid fibre relaxed, by the abstraction of biood ; 

 which abstraction, in degree, will be according to the 

 accidents of each individual case, the general hurry, or 

 local impediment. All general rule is inadmissible ; 

 there can be no uniformity of usage, in things of them- 

 selves contingent. 



As I advance, I find that 1 have some matters of eti- 

 quette in science to adjust with an ingenious gentleman of 

 Wilmington, Dr. Vaughan, and also with a learned lec- 

 turer of Philadelphia. While I use towards these gen- 

 tlemen every personal civility and courtesy, I must be 

 permitted to indulge in liberal criticism on their senti- 

 ments. Error in youth is excusable, but in teachers 

 should be chastised. 



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