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been prevented by the precaution of minutely 

 infpcdiing, and properly comprehending, the 

 crafis of the blood ; the indifpenfable ncceflity 

 of which, I am an^^io'ufly induced to hope, 

 will acquire fuch weight with thofe who are 

 adequate to U'it talk of decifion, that it will 

 in future become a buiinefs of more general 

 mveftigation. 



The repeated bleedings^ the red ud: ion of 

 dimcnty the perpetual adminiflration of nltre^ 

 (attenuating the blood that was before too 

 ferous and watery) the injudicious interpo- 

 iition of purges, and laftly, the infertion of 

 the ro\vel to allift in the general devaftation, 

 certainly exceeds every idea that could have 

 been formed of random quackery and bodily 

 depredation; this is, however, no more than 

 one reprefentation of what is eternally carry- 

 ing on in different places under the infpec^ 

 tion of thofe, who are too illiterate to poffeft 

 a conliftcnt opinion of their own, and too im- 

 pertinently conceited to folicit ^ffillance fron^ 

 others, 



Delpaiiing of fucccfs by any relief that 

 could be obtained from medicine, I ordered 



