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meaneD: Quack gives him any fuch Thing, he makes no 
fcrople of taking it, let it be what it will : As we have 
an rnftance in the famous Italian Cheat, Francis Burrtin 9 
who with his Tin&ura anri cheated many Tboulands of 
People, if not of their Health, yet of their Money, 
the laft of which is indeed more excufable. 
Therefore great Care ought to be had in giving Vo 
mits, and Confederation that they be well admini- 
ftred, other* ife you will foon fend the Patient oot of 
the World. 
Since we have fpoken of Evacuations, which are other- 
wife called llniverfal Medicines, it will not be amifs to 
refolve aQueftion, viz,. Whether the PtyalifmM, or Spit- 
ting, can and ought to be confidered as a Prefer vative in 
the Plague > For Jacobus Johannes W'encejlaus Dotrzenskji 
has wonderfully extolled it in a particular Treatife, and 
commends it as the greateft Prefervative. 
I mult confefs, that I am my felf of a Phlegmatick 
Conftitution, and very inclinable to fuch an Excretion ; 
and if at any time I fmell or taft any thing naufeous, I 
am forced to void Spittle in great quantities 5 which 
very often happened to me during this Plague, when 
I had been in Places where the Smell was far from be- 
ing agreeable. But yet I cannot fay, that this Spitting 
(which in me proceeds naturally, in others muft be ex- 
cited by Medicines,) was any ways profitable to me to 
prevent my being infe&ed $ by Reafon that the Peftilen- 
tial Vencm does more infett the Spirits and Mafs of 
Blood, than the Lymph from which the Saliva is fepa- 
rated. B.dides, Perfons infe&ed did not fwallow the 
Venom, or convey it to the Stomach by the Throat, 
but rather received it through the afpera arteria and 
Lungs, 
In the mean time I cannot fay that Spitting is fo 
much injurious 5 but in my Opinion it is unneceffary to 
force it by peculiar Medicines. For there is a great dif- 
ference 
