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kills the Patient I be gives us an Dbfervatidn ohmt 
finding out of the Pulfes. Then notwithftanding of his 
Praftice laft Year, and this hitherto, and what he fays 
about the mifchievous Ufc of Sweating Medicines,thcy 
being very uncertain, and either not having the exped- 
ed Effeft, they make the mod healthy Patient die the 
mod furious and mad Death or ev'n when they prove 
effedtual, yet by their Warmth add a greater Heat and 
Velocity to the Blood, than they help by their Evacu» 
ation. which makes a very unfuccefsful Pra£lice, and 
deterr'd him from having Recourfe to that way. Yet 
he iays, that having of late hit upon a Medicine, that 
in half a quarter of an Hour, puts the Patient into a 
large Sweat without any Warmth, and judges his Fe- 
ver , efpecially if he has the good fortune of a Cabbin. 
He muft give us fome Inftances of Fevers Cured by 
that Method ; and accordingly relates three or four Hi- 
ftories of People Cured in three Days this way. Then 
keeping to the Method of the former Book, he gives 
us an Account of the Cure of Agues, and particularly 
of an Ague perfonated by the Gout, and the way he 
Cured it ; He fays, that Dr. Sydenham was the firft 
that ever made any fiich Obfervarion, tho' he thought 
that there was no reafbn to be aflign'd for it ; but he 
alledges, that it is to be accounted for in the way he 
does for the other Symptoms of Agues. Next comes 
Diarrheas and Dyfenteries^ for the true Scurveys he 
does not pretend to do any thing with on Bo^rd ; but 
for his Dyfenterks, he gives fingular Inftances of a 
great many Men that were very ill of thefe Difeafts, 
and of a long time, yet they were all Cur'd by one 
Dofe of his Eledluary ; except one Man, who took 
two Dofes, and then was Cured. His Hiftorics of the 
Interloping Difeafes fucceed, and the firft of that kind 
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