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fevering in my opinion, long lince quoted, that 

 prevention is preferable to cure, I fliall point 

 out fuch methods as are the moil: ehgible to 

 adopt, upon the bare apprehenfion of fuch 

 complaint, or any diforder that may be likely 

 to terminate in a difeafe of fo much difficulty, 

 expence, and danger. 



In refped: to the medical and domeftic ma- 

 nagement ^ where the lungs are the feat of 

 difeafe, as in the firfh attack of coughs, &c. 

 diredlions fo clear and explanatory are laid 

 down through the whole of the fixth clafs, 

 that there is not the leaft room to add a fmgle 

 addition upon the fubjedl^ to that clafs, under 

 its difix^rent heads, I refer the reader for any 

 inftrudiicns that a variety of fymptoms may 

 render neceilary. But where a fwelling or tu- 

 mour gives ocular proof that matter is form- 

 ing under the ears, jaws, or between the bones 

 l^about the root of the tongue), take eveiy 

 pofiible method to produce a fuppuration and 

 difcharge of m.atter; for, in moft cafes, an 

 external evacuation becom^es the crifis, and 

 greatly preferable to the chance of mifchiefs 

 that may be the ref alt of repulfion, particularly 

 \vh.ne the matter is in an unhealthy ftate, and 



calculated 



