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other respects, will never prevail upon that 

 class to change their system. 



That MERCURIALS and antimonlials in-* 

 ternally^ with necessary and occasional caus- 

 tics externaUij , will (dictated by jadgment, 

 and proportioned with discretion) work 

 wonders, experience and indefatigable at- 

 tention from men of the most extensive abi- 

 lities have sufficiently proved. But the 

 abundant, unlimited, and injudicious appli- 

 cation of such destructive /?(;/^o/25, either ex- 

 ternally or internally, no reason can justify, 

 or prudence direct. And what confirms it a 

 danger of still greater magnitude is, the pre- 

 dominant desire to increase the doses and 

 applications, upon a most contemptible but 

 very common supposition ; '' if a small or 

 *' even a moderate dose does much, a lar^^e 

 *^ one will certainly do a oreat deal more.'* 



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The very frequent application of caustics 

 and repellents is a custom evidently too ab- 

 surd to require animadversion. Every com- 

 mon observer must instantly perceive the 

 folly of repelling a morbid and malignant 

 putrid matter to be again absorbed into the 

 circulation, at the very time nature has ar- 



