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< certain a Cure in the Remittent Fever as in the Inter- 
« mittent, but in the Spurious Remittent it hath not its 
EffetSt fofoon. This Fever cur'd with the Cortex is apt 
to return in the fhape of an Intermittent; but when 
it is cur'd by Nature, the Patient feldom hath a Relapfe. 
No critical Solution of this Fever is certain but Sweating 
and Salivating. The ftrength of the Pulfe is always a 
good ftcure fign, tho the Symptoms (eem terrible and 
dangerous. Almoft all Epidemical, Autumnal and 
' Camp-Fevers are either Genuine or Spurious Remit- 
tents. 
There is but one thing Indicated in this Fever, that is 
£the Correction, or rather Abolition of the Poyfon, 
which occafions all the Tumult ; unlefs the Spirits are 
Iput into Explofions, or the Humours colliquated, or the 
^Fever ipclimng to Malignancy ; for in theft cafes there 
arife feveral Indications. But becaufe this Poyfon is not 
always extinguifh'd by the fame means, but fometimes 
by its proper Antidote, fometimes by the natural and 
repeated Expanfion of the Spirits. Our Author fhews 
what is to mNkm when the Diftemper is left to Nature; 
and tho he looks upon that to be a very uncertain way 
of Cure, yet he lays down the Rules to be obferv'd in 
this Rational Method, by which if a Phyfician be gui- 
ded, he fhall do nothing that is ablurd orEmperical- 
and therefore gives a Defcription of the Difeafe, and its 
feveral Stages when it is left wholly to its felf, and the 
Reafons of its Symptoms. For inftance, Why the Lati- 
tude, Sorenefi, Head-ach and Pains, whether fixt or 
moveable, vanifli of their own accord in the ftate of the 
Fever, whatever its Event is like to be : How the (everal 
Stages come to be of an uncertain Duration, and longer 
and fhorter as the Spirits are flronger or weaker, & c . 
He fhews the Faults or Miftakes and illPra&ice of three 
ibrts of Men in this Rational Cure, namely, of the An- 
cients, of the Modern Chymifts, of the Surgeons and 
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