EXERCISE. Ml 



or fymptoms of difeafe, its injurious tendency 

 in fome cafes, or evident deftruftion in 

 others, as in the former of the two juft 

 dcfcribed. 



That the frequent ufe and abiife of nitrs 

 may not only be better underftood but 

 more perfedlly retained in memory ; as well 

 as to eflablilh the propriety of its ufe in 

 fome cafes, and to confirm tlie juftice of my 

 affertion refped:ing its prejudicial efteds in 

 others ; I mufl be under the necefiity of in- 

 troducing the repetition of a few lines defcrip- 

 tive of its properties, fo particularly enlarged 

 upon in my former volume, where it may 

 be found by reference to the index. In ani- 

 madverfion upon the unlimited eulggiums 

 of Bart LET, who has, without proper 

 difcrimination, recommended its frequent ufe 

 to ** three or four ounces three times a day^* 

 I have faid, 



** He urges the adminiftration of it to at- 

 tenuate and thin the denfe fizy blood during 

 the effed: of inflammatory fever ; this pro- 

 perty of attenuation being allowed, what mufl 

 be the natural conclufion and confequence 



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