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destitute of compreliension, as not to be en- 

 abled (upon particular occasions), to make 

 some necessary alterations, as the intent and 

 effect of the ^medicines prescribed are in ae^ 

 neral pointed out and explained. 



We will, therefore, in consequence of the 

 great fatality attending EPIDEMIC disor- 

 ders, conclude they are more entitled ta 

 consideration as pestilential disease than any 

 other : admitting this conception to be clear^ 

 it becomes necessary to say enough to make 

 the subject sufficiently tinderstood, without 

 protracting it to an extreme of medical mi-- 

 nutice that cannot tend to render the matter 

 more profitable or entertaining. Jn those 

 diseases where the orio'in cannot be ascer- 

 tained the cure becomes a matter of greater 

 obscurity ; but in general proceeding from 

 whatever cause, the blood is in an impoverish- 

 ed state, and the crassamejitum found upon 

 evacuation to be dissolved (or liquified) very 

 much beloxv the standard of health ; for beinir 

 deprived of the due proportion of its stimu- 

 lative property, it becomes consequently in- 

 adequate to its peculiar purpose of circula- 

 'tion. The whole arterial system being thus 



