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eligible and confiftent method of relief) fiirely 

 Immediate, repeated, and occajio al dif- 

 charges of blood, miiil: contribute, m many 

 ways, to a removal of the danger appre- 

 hended, in caufing fome degree of revulfion 

 by depletion ; which will undoubtedlj^ by 

 relieving the circulation, reduce the defcnbed 

 ftridlure upon the parts, and render fuch pro- 

 ceeding very far preferable to the certain 

 hazard and tedious expecftation of at Icajl 

 ihr&e days, for the bare chance oFvery fiowly 

 counteracting v/hat ** fuffocaticn'' might pre- 

 vent ; long before one, or a multiplicity of 

 rovoeh, could arrive at a proper degree of 

 fuppuration. And this is the very predomi- 

 nant reafon why I think they are by no 

 means to be relied on in acute cafes of danger 

 and emergency ; fo much as repeated bleed- 

 ings, and fuch evacuations as become more 

 SPEEDILY effectual upon the frame and con- 

 ftitution. 



*' When the head feems particularly af- 

 fecfled, as in the vertigo or ilaggers, apoplexy, 

 &c. &c/'— In thcfe cafes, after proper bleed- 

 ings, (which muft precede every other con- 

 iideration) a proper examination of the blood, 

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