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the Brck takes its Effedts, and then how its Nature 
to be known ; thereafter he relates us fome very par- 
ticular Inftances of hisPradice, and when that is done, 
he exan:iines Helvetius's new Method of giving it by 
Clyfters, and finds abundance of Faults in ir. His nex't 
care is of Scurveys, and as he fays that they are not fo 
rife at Sea, as People believe, fo they are never to 
be Cured a Ship-board. For Diarrhea $^ he hints at a 
Medicine which he prefers to the Ipecoachana ; but 
fince we have a fuller account of it next Year, in the 
Continuation, he (ays no more of it here* 
la Curing his Interloping Difeafes, he does not explain 
particularly the Symptoms, nor gives us a general Hi* 
ftory J but relating the Symptoms as they appear upon 
his Patient, he only fays this Difeafe being fo and fo, 
vk,, a Quinsy ^ this muft be the moft reafbnable way 
of Curing it, and then gives the Form of thefe Medi- 
cines he thenusU In this part he gives us three or 
four Inftances, and then ends his Book i he gives us the 
Cure of a QuiH/ey^wh^rc he has two particular Remarks. 
In his Cure of the Clap, he not only has a Pradice for 
it without the Woods, Mercury otTurpentiney but proves 
very Ihortly that it has not its Seat , where it is fuppo- 
fed to be, and then promifes to prove, that it cannBt 
be above two or three Inches within the Tcnis^ in its 
firftAffeaion. 
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