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effed; of the medicines prefcribed are In general 

 pointed cut and explained. 



We will, therefore, in confequence of the 

 great fatality attending EPIDEMIC diforders, 

 conclude they are more entitled to ccnfideration 

 zs pejlilential difeafe than any other : admitting 

 this conception to be clear, it becomes necellary 

 to fay enough to niake the fubject fufficiently 

 underftood., v/ithout protracting it to an extreme 

 of medical minutics that cannot tend to render 

 the m^atter more profitable or entertaining. 

 In thofe difeafes where the origin cannot be 

 afcertained the cure becomes a m.atter of greater 

 obfcurity^ but, in general, proceeding from 

 whatever caufe, the blood is i\\ an impoverifhed 

 jflate, and the cra[[amentum found upon eva- 

 cuation to be difTolved (or liquefied) very much 

 helow the ftandard of health ; for, being de- 

 prived of the due proportion of its ftimulative 

 property, it becomes confequently inadequate 

 to its peculiar purpofe of circulation. The 

 whole arttricd fyftem being thus deprived of 

 proportional diilributions to every part of thxC 

 frame, becomes too feeble to fiifiain the lliock j 

 I and. 



