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pores, and of ob[lru61ing or preventing the 

 emiflion of fluid, which obftruclion always pro- 

 duces morbid fenfations in the body, and ufu- 

 ally a difcharge from the noftrils : and it is to 

 be prefiimed whenever the mucous fluids are 

 obflru61ed internally (the bile for example) fuch 

 obflruction alfo produces morbid effefts. That 

 a fair analogy of the fubje6l does not fubfifl: 

 with thofe inflances, which the doftor has ad- 

 duced by way of illufl;ration, fince nobody pre-r 

 tends that oleous, v/arming, and confequently 

 relaxing applications, will have the effeft of 

 cloflng the pores, on the contrary, it is rather 

 to be expefted that all fuch, by their warmth 

 or fuppling quality, will have an effecl direftly 

 oppofite ; and it will be found by experience, 

 that to powder and drefs the hair is a remedy 

 of' confiderable efficacy in a frefh contrafted 

 cold. A lady of my acquaintance, jufl: got up 

 from her lying-in, imprudently expofed her 

 head by combing out all the tangles of her 

 hair. She had fcarcely finiflied before {he was 

 feized with a li^jhtnefs of the fls.in all over her 

 head and throat, a ftiarp fenfe of cold in thofe 

 parts, and great pain ; thefe fymptoms were 

 ibon accompanied with confiderable difcharge 

 at the nofe, and inflammation of the parotid 

 •glands. Fortunately, a doctor was at hand, in 

 the perfon of the hair-drefler, who prefcribed 

 (as he pretended from frequent experience) a 



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