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trial : but kt it be remembered, that all 

 medicines of this kind (hould be conti- 

 nued a confiderable time, in obftinate 

 cafes. 



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CHAP. XXII. 

 Of HUMOURS; 



H E word humours (which has an The term 

 unbounded latitude both in /)^j[y/<:^ humours 

 and farriery, and is too often a proper ^"^^J^^_^^® 

 fandluary for the ignorant to fly to in^^Q^^" 

 both profelTions) feeras to be llrangely . 

 mifapplied, and in general but little un- 

 derftood ; otherwife it would not be fo 

 indeterminately ufed as it is, when the 

 diforder is not in the fluids, but merely in 

 the veflTels. 



Thus it is often affirmed, that humours Veryim- 



fall down on the limbs, when with more properly 



propriety it might be faid, they cannot ^fid fome- 



fo well rife up, or circulate fo freely in""^^^to 



VI- ^• 1 1 jt lall down. 



perpendicular as m diagonal canals ; tor 

 the force of the heart is the fame, whether 

 to raife a column of blood in an upright 



P 3 or 



