242 EXERCISE; 



of giving it in fuch large proportions ? Why 

 every profejjtonal man, knowing the mode by 

 which it muft inevitably afFedt the circula- 

 tion, would naturally exped: it to dilTolve 

 the very craffamentum of the blood,' and 

 reduce it to an abfolutc ferum or aqueous 

 vapour.'* 



Admitting this reprefentation of its anali- 

 zed properties to ftand incontroverted, what 

 muft prove its evident efFed:s upon the crafis 

 of the bloody already too much impoverifhed 

 for '^ the ftandard of mediocrity neceffary to 

 the prefervation of health?^* and how dif- 

 treffingly erroneous m.uft have been its intro- 

 dudlion and continuance, in the former cafe 

 of the two we have recited ! to elucidate its 

 deftrudlive tendency in which, the prefent 

 repetition of its defcription is particularly 

 applied. 



It is abfolutely aflonilhing how very much 

 tJms, ailifted by the torrent of popular im- 

 preffion, may pervert the belT: intentions to 

 the worft of purpofes ; this has been fo truly 

 the cafe in the frequent proftitution of this 

 medic-ine, that little need be introduced to 



infure 



