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eligible and consistent metliod of relief) 

 surely immediate, repeated, and occasional dis- 

 ^hari^es of blood must contribute, in manv 

 ways, to a removal of the danger appre- 

 hended, in causing some degree of revulsion 

 by depletion ; which will undoubtedly, by 

 relieving the circulation, reduce the described 

 stricture upon the parts, and render such pro- 

 ceeding very far preferable to the certain 

 I)azard and tedious expectation of at least 

 three days, for the bare chance of very slowly 

 counteracting what ^^^uffocation" might pre- 

 vent ; long before one, or a multiplicity of 

 ¥owels, could arrive at a proper degree of 

 suppuration. And this is the very predo- 

 minant reason why I think they are by no 

 mean.s to be relied on in acute cases of dan- 

 ger and emergency, so much as repeated 

 bleedings, and such evacuations as become 

 MORE SPEEDILY effectual upon the frame 

 and constitution. 



"• Wlien the head seems particularly af- 

 fected, as in the vertigo or staggers, apoplexy'* 

 &c. &c. — In these cases, after proper bleed- 

 ings (which must precede every other con* 

 ^ideration) a proper examination of the bleod^ 



