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tW fermenting nature of contagion/ This contagion 
chiefly propagated by ^jj?^^!'^^ in the Air; Thefe effluvic^ 
are readily imbibed by the Saliva, which th usimpregna- 
ted and iwallowed, muft needs communicate them to the 
bodysto which may be annexed the obfervation ota Con- 
fiimptioncur d by a criticaHaHvation. Hetreats very 
largely of the nature and cure of ^ Pertpneumonia, and 
©f its difference from a Fleurify ; of all difeafes of the 
lungSj ^%Gan^rene,SchirruSyVomica axx.A.Stones frequently 
found in them, a cafe of which latter is lubjoyned of one 
who expe£loratingmany of different fhapes and fizes^was 
eafed from 2i dyfpncva under which he aimoft mortally 
laboured. 
Among plemifys there is an account of a periodical ^ 
(Dne returning once in feven weeks.Of another cauled by 
temgbing, &c. Among the celebrated remedies forit^ 
you find Antimonium Diaphoreticum as alfo a bark in In- 
dia very powerful, if not a fpecilick in this cafe. It is 
called Pawo de portada, of a yellow ifh colour, bitter 
taft, and a friable confiftence / half an ounce in a glaffe 
of Wine is the dofe. In his Hiftories of confumptions 
he relates an example of the great contagion of it, which , 
was the infection of a fenators fecond Wife, only by we^a- 
ringthe Muff of his firft Wife who died of one, though 
after the diftance of above a twelvemonth. He gives a 
particular account of the famous Cnceffelim^s remedies 
in this as he has done in other cafes : Inftances how Opiums 
has been very unfuccesfully applied in it, death inluing 
the ftoppage of the fpitting, and the coagulation of the 
matter there caufed by it. 
In the Sedion de J^efpiratione Ufa, there is a larg e 
differtation de halitu humano, of its difference, caufes^ , 
manner-quantity, ufe, difeafes, Re written hjGeorgim 
Traneus. Which difcourfe is followed by an account of - 
a monfter which breathed through an hole in the pole ^ 
as alfo the difcourfe of 2)r. Xo23P^r, how adogmaybe 
made. 
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