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of this blood, the patient drank plentifully of 
brandy, which Pinar affured him would of it- 
felf cure him. 
As I had fuppofed, that, after fuch an acci- 
dent, brandy would always be held by him in 
deteftation, I was furprifed to fee him indulge 
in fuch fearful intemperance. However, I 
fhut my eyes on his exceffes, confiderlng him 
as one of thofe patients, who, being given over 
by the phyfician, are rcfufed nothing, becaufe 
it is prefumed nothing can do them any farther 
injury. 
Who would believe that this deteftable re- 
gimen fhould have operated the effedl which 
Pinar had predided ? At any rate it proved 
not to be injurious. The reader may argue 
as he pleafes on this miraculous cure ; and cer- 
tainly I fhould myfelf be far from recommend- 
ing in a fimilar caie the fame praftice, not- 
withftanding the fuccefs with which I faw it 
attended ; but wiiether it was the effed of the 
brandy, or whether nature alone, and the 
energy of the vital powers, united and confo- 
lidated the fradured bones, I cannot help de- 
claring that my old drunkard was perfedly 
cured, without dreffing, without bandage, 
with- 
