250 FEVER S.- 



cffcQ. of the medicines prefcribed are in general 

 pointed out and explained. 



We will, therefore, in confequence of the 

 great fatality attending EPIDEMIC diforders, 

 conclude they are more entitled to confideration 

 ^s pejiilential dikzfc than any other: admitting 

 this conception to be clear, it becomes neceflary 

 to fay enough to make the fabjedl fafficienily 

 underftood, without protrading it to an extreme 

 of medical miuutice that cannot tend to render 

 the matter more profitable or entertaining. 

 In thofe difeafes where the origin cannot be 

 afcertained the cure becomes a matter of greater 

 obfcurity; but, in general, proceeding from 

 whatever caufe, the blood \^ in an impoveriihed 

 ftate, and the crajjamentiim found upon eva- 

 cuation to be diffolved (or liquefied) very much 

 helow the ftandard of health ; for, being de- 

 prived of the due proportion of its ftimulativc 

 property, it becomes confequently inadequate 

 to its peculiar purpofe of circulation. The 

 whole arterial fyftem being thus deprived of 

 its natural fupply that fhould be conveyed in 

 proportional diftributions to every part of the 

 frame, becomes too feeble to fuflain the (hock; 

 6 and. 



