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causes, yet this is not necessary to be taken notice of here ; be- 

 cause the different appearances which attend different inflam- 

 mations may be referred, for the most part, to the difference of 

 the part affected, as will appear when we shall consider the se- 

 veral genera and species marked in the Nosology. When I 

 come to treat of these, I shall find a more proper occasion for 

 taking notice of the different states of the proximate, or of the 

 differences of the remote cause, than by treating of them in 

 general here. 



SECT. V. OF THE CUEE OF INFLAMMATION. 



CCLXIV. The indications of cure in inflammation are dif- 

 ferent, according as it may still be capable of resolution, or may 

 have taken a tendency to the several other terminations above 

 mentioned. As the tendency to these terminations is not always 

 immediately evident, it is always proper, upon the first appear- 

 ance of inflammation, to attempt the cure of it by resolution. 

 For this purpose, the indications of cure are, 



1. To remove the remote causes when they are evident and 

 continue to operate. 



2. To take off the phlogistic diathesis affecting either the 

 whole system or the particular part. 



3. To take off the spasm of the particular part, by remedies 

 applied either to the whole system or to the part itself. 



CCLXV. The means of removing the remote causes will 

 readily occur, from considering the particular nature and cir- 

 cumstances of the different kinds. Acrid matters must be re- 

 moved, or their action must be prevented, by the application of 

 correctors or demulcents. Compressing and overstretching 

 powers must be taken away ; and, from their several circum- 

 stances, the means of doing so will be obvious. 



CCLXVI. The means of taking off the phlogistic diathesis 

 of the system, are the same with those for moderating the vio- 

 lence of reaction in fever, which are mentioned and treated of 

 from CXXVII to CXLIX., and therefore need not be re- 

 peated here. I only observe, that, in the use of those reme- 

 dies, there is less occasion for any reserve than in many cases 



