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pra6lice in colds : for thefe cafes require a 

 direftly oppofite treatment; in the firft, you 

 canfcarcely load on too much clothing, or pre- 

 fcribe medicines of too warm and volatile a 

 nature, fince it is your intent to create a tem- 

 porary fever, in order to fufe or diffolve the 

 coagulated lymph, and bring the difeafe to a 

 crifis : but in the latter cafe, when the fympr 

 tomatic fever already exifts, and perhaps in a 

 confiderable degree, fuch praftice wotild -be 

 very hazardous, and cooling diuretic medi- 

 cines with venefe^lion are clearly indicated. 

 I fhall begin with the cure of this latter cafe, or 

 cold attended with fever. 



Mr. Blaine's objeclions to my pathology in 

 this difeafe appear to arife from two caufes ; a 

 miilatement of my ideas, and his want of prac- 

 tical obfervation on catarrh. He ought to have 

 faid, the fame difeafe with oppofite fymptoms, 

 inflead of, " the fame difeafe with the fame 

 " fymptoms." That catarrh is fometimes at- 

 tended with chills, rigours, and a low pulfe, and 

 at others with fever and inflammation, requiring 

 an oppofite treatment in each, and that the 

 animal body, under the influence of obflrufted 

 perlpiration, is ftill more liable to an acceffion 

 or increafe of catarrh, from that very account, 

 I had conceived to be too open to every one's 

 obfervation to fuppofe them any difcovery of 

 mine : that fuch, however, are the fa6ls, I can- 

 not 



