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now treat of^ and whichever it is, or to what 

 denomination it is mod properly entitled, the 

 feat of difeafe being the fame, the cure muft 

 be correfponding: but in thefe, and in all other 

 diforders, a little judgment muft be exerted 

 to regulate the treatment by circumftances, as 

 fymptoms cannot on every occafion be col- 

 lected from books, or be found in one diftem* 

 per always the fame. 



Dlfeafes originating in the moft abftrufe re- 

 cefies of nature, and that will admit fuch a com- 

 plication of conftrudtions, may proceed from a 

 variety of caufes clearly comprehended; as, in 

 all probability, they may likewife from many 

 that we arc entirely unacquainted with. Among 

 the former is that caufe originating in the pre- 

 ternatural increafe of the velocity of the blood, 

 inftantaneouflyaffedingthe brain; as is annually 

 confirmed by the Icfs of hundreds, in madly 

 exceeding the bounds of humanity, and ex- 

 haufting the ftrength and powder of an animal 

 made by Nature fufficiently ftrong to bear 

 almoft every tafk the degeneracy or avarice of 

 man could be fuppofed to invent. In corro- 

 boration of this circumftance of the premature 

 deaths occafioned by increafing the velocity of 



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