xvi PREFACE. 
thus Difeafes, as Inflammations of the 
Brain , Throat, Sides , Lungs , Mi- 
driff, Liver , Stomach , Kidnies , &c. 
4. The fame Difeafes in fundry Ages 
of Life challenge different Treatment : 
What is adapted to Infancy is too 
weak for the Aged : Fox-glove, 
Groundfel, Hellebore, Spurge, pro- 
perly prepared , may be fafely given to 
the lafl , but fure none mill adventure 
them on the Stomachs of the firfl. 
>7 5 - Things , that at one Time may be 
mofl advifeable and beneficial , may at 
another Titne be as hurtful and miff 
chievous in the fame Difeafe ; as in 
hyfleric Diforders , or where the Breafl 
is fluff'd with much tough Phlegm: 
In the firfl nervous and hyfleric Things 
are befl\ in the lafl Attenuants , in- 
ciding and flimulant Peel orals ; but 
what prudent Perfon would advife 
either to be given uncorreEled to W 0- 
men with Child f 6. Sundry Stages 
of the fame Diflemper require very 
different Courfes ; as, in the Beginning 
of a Pleurify , the Cough mufl be 
. treated 
