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therefore revert no more to a succession or 

 repetition of symptoms, where enough has 

 been already pointed out to explain to any 

 rational observer a case originating in the 

 causes we now treat of ; and whichever it is, 

 or to what denomination it is most properly 

 entitled, the seat of disease being the same, 

 the cure must be corresponding : but in these, 

 and in all other disorders, a little jadgment 

 must be exerted to regulate the treatment by 

 circumstances, as symptoms cannot on every 

 occasion be collected from books, or be found 

 in one distemper always the same. 



Diseases oriojinatinsj in the most abstruse 

 recesses of nature, and that will admit such 

 a complication of constructions, may proceed 

 from a variety of causes, clearly compre- 

 hended ; as^ in all probability, they may 

 likewise from many that we are entirely un- 

 acquainted with. Among the former is that 

 cause originating in the preternatural increase 

 of the velocity of blood, instantaneously af- 

 fecting the brain; as is annually confirmed 

 by the loss of hundreds, in madly exceeding 

 the bounds of humanity, and exhausting the 

 strengtli and power of an animal made by 



