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him and Mr. Mills to the eftects of heat ; and by 

 Chancellor Livingston and many others under 

 thai of staggers or dizziness. It is by all the wri- 

 ters I have seen, except Chancellor Livingston, 

 attributed with great probability, to plethoric ful- 

 ness of blood ; which, although it may occur at any 

 season, is most likely to produce its effects in hot 

 weather, and yields to bleeding, and other eva- 

 cuations. What induces me to suppose the disease 

 so accurately described by Chancellor Livingston 

 to be this disease, more than sturdy is, that his 

 cases yielded simply to patience and attention ; 

 which are much more likely to cure a disease 

 arising from plethora, and a partial determination 

 of blood to the head, than one which like sturdy 

 is proved to arise from w^ater, confined in a mem- 

 braneous cist : which we know from what occurs in 

 the human body to be a class of diseases seldom, 

 I believe I may say never cured, but by eva- 

 cuating the water and destroying the cist. If 

 these sentiments are just, it becomes of conse- 

 quence to distinguish these diseases from each 

 other by some decided mark. I confess I cannot 

 do this from experience, never having ascertained 

 the disease called sturdy by dissection ; although 

 I have in several instances met with that called 

 staggers ; some of which proved fatal, others 

 were cured, as in the case of Chancellor Livings- 

 ton, by lime and patience. But, arguing theoreti- 

 eally, Irom the nature of the causes, I should su|3- 



