( 3*5 ) 



not negleft the ufe of thofe few remedies, 

 whofe properties have been difcovered 

 rather by chance than defign, and which 

 they have obferved to produce good ef- 

 fects in cafes apparently limilar, without 

 knowing, or pretending to know, the 

 manner of their operation. And it is 

 from this fimple origin, that the fcience 

 of medicine, diverted from its modern 

 improvements, derived its exiftence. 

 " Diligentes homines haec notaffe, quae 

 u plerumque melius refponderent; deinde 

 " aegrotantibus ea prascipere, caspifle ; 

 " fic medicinam ortam: fubinde alio- 

 " rum falute, aliorum interitu, perni- 

 " ciofa difcernentem a falutaribus % f 

 But if the combined power of exorcifm 

 and medicine is infufficient to preferve 

 life, the Peii attributes the patient's 

 death either to the implacable invete- 

 racy of the Yowaboo, or to the influence 



* Celfus, pr'afat. lib. i. p. 9. 



of 



