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care of the phyficmns, or Orabiaffes. This 

 culloin prevents the venereal difeafe from 

 fpreadi ng fo much in this ill and as it has 

 fpread in Europe* Befidcs, the Omblafles 

 have found out a remedy for this difordcr, 

 which is faid to be extremely efficacious. 1 

 do not recoiled the name of the plant which 

 they ufe ; but I know that its leaves refem- 

 ble thofe of the phyllyrea, Thefe phyficl- 

 ans order the patient to chew and fvvallow 

 it, lying alternately on the back and belly, 

 in a horizontal pofition. The patient niuft 

 not be loaded with clothes ; and in order 

 tliat. perfphatioa may not be impeded, ftie 

 muft be farrounded, on all fides, with a 

 ftrong brilk lire, during tlie whole time that 

 the remedy a6:s. The virus of the difeafe 

 generally accumulates in the foles of tlic 

 feet ; and the abfcefs there formed is feU 

 dom attended with difagreeablc confe- 

 quences. Great caie is taken that the heat 



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