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Nettle not being better known, tho' its Afperlries are 
difcovered. In fine, he recommends Experience, Obfer- 
vation , and the like, as more hkely to difcover the 
Quantity and. QuaUty of Remedies , with their Ufe 
and moft fit times of Application, than thefe fuppofed 
Inventions and curious Speculations. 
To this Epiftle Sn^- Malpighi fubjoins a large and ve- 
ry particular Anfwer , having firft inferted in this 
Work an extraordinary Cafe of a young Lady, af- 
flided with a Complication of Dileafes, proceeding 
chiefly from Melancholy, all which flie bore with an 
Heroick Fortitude , that (he could hardly befaid to be 
unhappy , tho labouring under lo(s of Appetite , 
frequent Vomitings of undigefted Food ; Palpitations 
of the Heart, with great gnawing Pains Hyfterick 
Fits, Faintings, with a Swelling in the Aldo- 
men^ like an Aneurtfm , all which reduced the Patient 
to a Skeleton, as fhe then was, when the Account was 
given of her. 
Here follows Sn'*- Malpighis Reply to the Epiftle 
De Recentifrum Medicorum Studio, &cc. where in the 
firft place he obferves from Hippocrates^ that Men 
condemn that as fuperfluous, which they are deficient 
in themfelves; and cdftiplaining of the hard ufagehe 
has met with IVomtlie ill-nature of fome Men, he comes 
to anfwer the Treatife it felf (having firft given fome 
account of the Author, who was at firft an Anatomy- 
Reader, and teacher of the Rational Practice of Phy- 
fick ) and obferves , that the Author omits many 
things of great weight, that the Modern Praftiftrs 
of Phyfick carefully regard, and infifts only upon the 
three particulars mentioned in the Letter, as if they 
were their whole Care and Study, viz, the more curious 
Amtomy , Dendrfinatome and Comparative Anatomy , 
whereas the very Titles of Books Printed , fliews on 
the 
