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now treat of; and which ever it is, or to what 

 denomination it is moft properly entitled, the 

 feat of difeafe being the fame, the cure muft 

 be correfponding : but in thefe, and in all other 

 diforders, a little judgment muft be exerted 

 to regulate the treatment by circumftances, as 

 fymptoms cannot on every occafion be col- 

 ledled from books, or be found in one diflemper 

 always the fame. 



Difeafe s originating in the moft abftrufe re- 

 cefTes of nature, and that will admit fuch a com- 

 plication of conftrudlions, may proceed from a 

 variety of caufes clearly comprehended; as, in 

 all probability, they may likewife from many 

 that we are entirely unacquainted with. Among 

 the former is that caufe originating in the pre- 

 ternatural increafe of the velocity of the blood, 

 inftantaneouflyaffedling the brain; as is annually 

 confirmed by the lofs of hundreds, in madly 

 exceeding the bounds of humanity, and ex- 

 haufting the ftrength and power of an animal 

 made by Nature fufficiently ftrong to bear 

 almoft every taflc the degeneracy or avarice of 

 man could be fuppofed to invent. In corro- 

 boration of this circumftance, of the premature 

 deaths occafioned by increaling the velocity of 



the 



