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ed objections to physic, though in many m- 

 stances the danger has been attributed to 

 more remote causes, and truth (from fatal coa^ 

 sequences) has never been ascertained. 



Cases of this kind have occurred within 

 my own knowledge, wXieve. the came has been 

 confessed, when the effect was unerringly per- 

 ceptible ; both the pores and the intestines 

 (ah^eady preternaturally relaxed by the ad- 

 ministration of medicine, additional cloath- 

 ing, and surrounding warmth) sufler suddea 

 coUapsion by the styptic power of the frigid 

 element, producing an ahnost instantaneuos 

 obstruction to every secretion ; the perspira- 

 tive matter thus obstructed, is directly fixed 

 in the extremities, constituting rheumatic 

 pains, that frequently terminate \\\ palsy \ or 

 its effects upon the stomach and intestines, 

 then in the highest state of irritability, are 

 found to produce the most excruciating cholic, 

 spasms, convulsions, iujlammation, ov 7nortifica^ 

 tion, that in eitlier case^enerallv ends in 

 death; though lingering instances are fre- 

 quently seen, where eight, ten, or' twelve 

 days of dreadful anxiety precede the termi- 

 nation. 



