joS HUNTERS. 



nal ; and are therefore calculated as preven- 

 tatives to the poffible inconveniencies of im- 

 pending repletion ; pre fervatives of health, or 

 necefTary preludes to the completion of per- 

 fect CONDITION. 



The fame elucidation likt;wife demon- 

 ftrates the confiflency of increafing the pro- 

 portions, or enlarging the dofes, when more 

 diilant fervices are expeded by calling the 

 remote powers into aftion, for the purpofes 

 fo particularly explained ; for inftance, in 

 great repletion of the veffels, fulnefs of the 

 carcafe, heavinefs of the head and eyes, 

 fwelling and tenfion of the legs, and fuch 

 other caufes as will be hereafter explained. 

 Gentle cathartics^ a(5ting merely as obfervable 

 laxatives, can never be e:j:peded to reach the 

 featofthefe complaints ; fuch brisk purges 

 only can be adopted with propriety, as will, 

 by their continued ftimulus, come into con- 

 tadt with, aad additionally ad: upon, the very 

 interjlices ot the ftomach and inteftines, after 

 the excrementitious fuperflux is thrown off; 

 exciting by fuch means, the lymphatics and 

 ladcals to difgorge fome portion of their 

 extra contents y (diitinguiflicd from time im- 

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