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III. A Vifcourfe concerning the Difficulty of cu- 
ring Fluxes, writ occajionally on reading Vr.de 
Juffieu’f Memoire in the Hiflory , See. of the 
(Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, for the Year 
1729. Vy William Cockburn, M. V. F- 
and of the College of Rhyficians , London. 
I N reading Dr. de Juffieite Memoire, about the pre- 
fer) t Difgrace of Ipecacuanha in France , and the 
Method he propofes for redrefling its Defeats by Si- 
marouha , a Root brought from Cayen in America , 
I was furpriz’d to find a Remedy aimoft ador’d for 
half a Centurv, to have fallen into the utmoft Con- 
tempt ; a Specified, , a very fhort and fatisfaefory Word, 
totally neglected by its mod zealous Votaries. 
The learned Profelfor alledges, that this great Re- 
volution, in the Fame of Ipecacuanha , proceeds from 
its having been unfkilfully adminiftred : Phyficians 
commonly confidering the general Appearance of a 
Loofenefs only, without penetrating into the particu- 
lar Caufes which fupport it, and that require, on that 
Account, different Methods of curing it. 
Monf. de Jufiieu , avoiding all Extremes, is an 
Enemy to the banifhing Ipecacuanha altogether out 
of the Practice of Phyfick, as many of its difappoint- 
ed Adorers now do ; becaufe it is not the infallible Spe- 
cifick they vainly imagined it to be. 
This common Mifapplication of Medicines, or our 
Ignorance of the particular Circumftances of a Difeafe, 
when it requires a different Method of Cure, is the 
very Reafon why great Numbers of excellent Medi- 
cines., 
