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And however the Bark has been fometimes cenfufed, as if the Cures 
by it were more fubje(5^: to Relapfes thzn by any other Methods i on the 
contrary, lam fiilly perfuaded, that the Cures t^^ues by Fotnits, Sea- 
fonabU R urges, by Cordials acidulated, or by <^mtilcts, or Domejiick 
triplications alone, are all more fubjed to ^elapfes, than thofe by the 
Bark, if this be prudently adminillred. To confirm- which Opinion, I may 
add, That thofe who recover by the Bark, look florid and vigorous, 
grow quickly athletick and ftrong, and eat and digdi well *, whereas 
thofe who mifs their Bts by other means, look pale and weakly feme 
time after, and their natural Fun^^ions do return more flowly, and by de- 
grees to their former flrength and vigor. 
As for our rgues, in the Hundreds of EJJex, the Cure of the Bark 
does certainly agree with them, as well as with thofe in other Places. 
And it was to this very place that our once famous Sir Robert Talboy had 
hisrecourfe, in order to the fir ft eftablifhing his Method of giving fuch re- 
peated Dofes of the Bark. 
I do apprehend an Ague to be but a weak and flight Attack of a Fever, 
or to be an imperfect Fever, or it may be faid to be a Fever by halfs. 
Either the Enemy that makes the Aflault is w'eak and feeble, or the 
Fort that Nature defends is Strong, and well prepared to make Reflftance. 
Either the Body is not fufficiently predifpofed for fuch a Combuflion as 
the Continued Fever does occafion, or the Pms are then but little ObftruSed 
and therefore after the two firft proper Symptoms of a Fever, the Cold^ 
nefs or Shivering, and the Burning Heat, have a while exerted themfelves. 
there is always in an Ague a fudden fucceflion of a Profufe Sweat, which 
terminates the Fit. For when the Burning flill remains, and no Sweat 
fuccceds, the Fever continues of courfe, and undergoes another denomi- 
nation. 
The one may be faid to make its ImprefTion more Outwardly, and up. 
on the Fores \ the other not only fo, but alfo more Inwardly, and upon 
the Fftals. The one falls chiefly upon the Outworks, or upon the Coun^ 
ierfearp, the other makes a breach in z Bafthn, or in the cr«r//»e. The 
Attack of the one is not in it felf hazardous our dangerous to the State of 
the Body •, the Attack of the other is like a General AJjualt, and proves of 
a Critical nmire, or determines the fate of Life znd Death And this is a 
moreeafy. and natunil, and a more intelligible explication of the Ge- 
neral Difterence between Fevers and t^gucs, than other Accounts of them, 
tisataie more Obfeure and Intricate, more Philolofcphical, or artificiai- 
]y wrought into Tome Ingenious Hypothefis. 
Ihave obferved, that in Scafons or Times when A^ucs are very Fpsde” 
mical, as it is in Countries where they are very common and frequent, 
the Eei'cri are ufually of the fame nature and progeny, and do 
generally require a like Method of Cure, and are adually cured by a 
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