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fophical Tranfadions, April 1700. His hafte would not pei « 
mit him to obferve the Cafe fo exaftly as it deferv'd : this 
Child two years before, had an Ulcer in the Right fide of 
his Lungs, and they adhered to his Back, when I feparated 
them I found a Cicatrix near three inches long, but very 
little (if any)defea in his Lungsjam of opinion this Pituita 
or Mucus doth ferve to re-unite the parts of the Lungs when 
there is a folution by an Ulcer. 
Confuraptive Perfons generally flatter themfeives, that 
they have no Ulcer in their Lungs, becaufe they do not feel 
a forenefs, as in the Ulcers of other parts. This opinion 
keeps them from making a timely application to Phyficians, 
whilft they might recieve a fpeedy and eafie Cure. When 
you touched the Sound or Ulcerated parts of her Lungs with 
your Probe or Finger, (he difcovered no fenfe of feeling 
you, which may confirm the opinion of Phyficians and 
Anatomifts, that the Lung^ have 5ictle if any feniation. 
When you touched htr ikart with your Finger, tho l be- 
lieve for not the twentieth part of a minute, (he grew very 
much difordered, pale and ready to faint, which fnovvs 
Nature cannot fuff^r the leaft alteration in its pulfation, with- 
out great prejudice and inconveniency. 
It is the opinion of feme Phyficians,that the Fever which 
attends Confumptive Patients, arifes from fome Particles of 
the Pus, which being received into the Blood, and circula- 
ting with it, caufe that eftervefcence which we call an 
Hedick. This Patient had no Fever ixomChrijltms to May^ 
and then unhappily came a continued Fever, with a 
which left a Febricitation every afternoon, with thofe 
fymptoms which attend a Hedick. 
I have obferved for many years, that if I could prefcrvc 
my Confumptive Patients from that Hedick Fever or re- 
lieved them who already laboured under it, I could cure 
them, tho their expedoration v/as very plentiful and fouL- 
I doubt nor, but if feme of our faculty applied thernfelv:-: 
more particularly to the cure of Confumptions, fo ju 
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