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CLASS VII. 



FEVERS, WORMS, and JAUNDICE. 



FEVERS. 



The obfervations and reflexions that firft 

 induced me to perceive the abfoiute neceifity 

 of fome reformation in the pradice of FAR- 

 RIERY, never influenced me more in a con- 

 vidion of that want, than did a thorough in- 

 vefl;igation of the fubjeft before us. For 

 Bartlet, in his ufual ki?id and eafy way, fays 

 *^ he ptirpofely avoids giving defcriptions of dif- 

 ** eafes, or fo much as guejfmg at the caufes 

 *' within which bring them about.'^ What 

 could have been his motive for ** purpofe]y" 

 concealing what in ** A Pradlical Treatife" had 

 every right to be revealed, I know no!*j and 

 what his reafons could he^ I leave entirely to 

 the private opinions of otkcrs, making public 



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