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nials, and alteratives, hereafter described, I 

 perfectly coincide in opinion with a writer 

 before quoted, who says, '' When the dis- 

 *' ease is so inveterate as to resist every appli- 

 *' cation, that the symptoms not only con- 

 *^ tinue predominant, but evidently increase, 

 '' it is incurable/' And to this information 

 I suspect he meant (but omitted to recom- 

 mend what I now most heartily do,) the 

 putting a period to a scene of pain and mi- 

 sery, by taking away a life that every degree 

 of assiduity and effort of art cannot render 

 worthy preservation. 



In respect to cure, upon the very earliest 

 appearance take away blood in quantity as 

 before described, and after so doing attend 

 minutely to the quality, which circumstance 

 will enable you to form a very decisive judg- 

 ment how soon, and to what proportion, the 

 subject will bear this evacuation, should it 

 again be necessary ; for, according to the 

 extra proportion of the crassameiitum (or coa^ 

 gulum), and the size (or gelatinized substance 

 upon the surface), with the disproportion of 

 the serum, or watery part, it may be very 

 readily ascertained how much the blood is 

 certaiuly above or befow the standard of me- 



