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ufual afcent from the roots, by reafon of the 

 lefs changeable heat in the earth, at fuch 

 cafual times, the fame muft in meeting the 

 upper in it's defcent, either burft the tree, . 

 or proceed to a ramification in fuch parts of 

 it's body as it can moft readily 5 either be- 

 ing but a natural efFed: of their oppofition, 

 or to ufe a modifh word, Contravention, 



And thus a fudden cold, from a like con- 

 traft, by flopping a free perfpiration, many 

 times gives birth to cuticular eruptions in 

 human bodies, like to ramifications thro' the 

 bark of Oaks. But altho* it is not my bu- 

 finefs to fliew all the analogous affeftions be- 

 tween animate and inanimate bodies ; I think 

 it not impertinent to my defign to inftance 

 fuch parallels, by reafon that the diagnoftic 

 part of the maladies being fhewn, the Thyfi^ 

 cal remedies may be the more readily ap- 

 plied, efpecially as it will thereby appear, 

 that the Prefcriber \% not fighting againft na- 

 ture \ but as a rational phyfician remedying 

 tbofe diforders in either conftitution, which 

 malevolent feafons, and ©ther accidents had 

 brqught upon them, 



I HOPE 



