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the case before us, the reader will do well to 

 collect what mformation he can from his at- 

 tentive observations; then compare them 

 with the most predominant symptoms de- 

 scribed under the heads of different diseases, 

 and so adjust his decision as to bring it into 

 that cjass to which it bears the greatest si- 

 mihtude, andadoot a mode of treatment ac- 

 cordingly. To take this subject in as con- 

 cise a view as possible, (let it proceed from 

 whatever cause) the course of balsamic re- 

 storatives and detergent pectorals, found under 

 the heads of colds, couqhs, and succeed- 

 ing articles, with the aids of bleeding mashes, 

 and such other assistances as may be select-^ 

 ed from the variety of prescriptions and in- 

 structions so often repeated, render unneces- 

 sary any farther observation or animadvert- 

 §ion upon this head. 



