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Blood, and fhortly to be thrown on the 
fmall Vefiels of the Brain, to the imminent 
Danger of the Patient. Now tepid Bath- 
ing is of ail others the mod: likely Method, 
and has often been found fo in EffeCt, to 
relax and dilate the Strainers of the Kid- 
neys, and make way for the Filtration of 
the Salts retained in the Blood, which had 
irritated and contracted the DuCts of the 
Kidneys, fo as the Diameters of the Veffels 
were too fhort or narrow to let the Salts 
pafs. In violent and fudden Paffions of the 
Mind, as Fear, Grief, Joy, &c\ which rails 
the Elafticity of the Fibres and Solids to 
their higheft Peg, and often end in imme- 
diate Death, Madnefs, Watch fulnefs, Ra- 
vings, or Fevers ; can any thing be more 
abfurd and monftrous, than Bleeding, Bli- 
ftering, and other Evacuations, or cheer- 
ing Cordials, &c. when it is plain the So- 
lids are wound up to their liigheft Pitch, 
the Fluids have been impetuoufly and vio- 
lently ground down and expelled before, 
as is feniibly perceived by the Nofes of the 
By-ftanders often ? Here the whole Chance 
lies on immediate Relaxation and Dilution, 
and thefe can be no way fo fpeedily and 
effectually 
