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off by Perfpiration or Sweat. However the Phy- 
fician, to proceed with Judgment in this Matter, 
ought to have great Regard to the epidemical Con- 
ftitution of the Year, and the peculiar Habit of 
the Tick Perfon. 
Since an intermitting Fever puts on different 
Difguifes, or as the learned Dodtor Morton expreffes 
it, is of a Proteiform Genius , frequently counter- 
feiting many other acute Difeafes ; fince this, I fay, 
is its various Nature, although the Peruvian Bark 
be the chief and almoft only Remedy to be de- 
pended on, yet the grievous Symptoms which ac- 
company the Difeafe, or under which it is con- 
cealed, require fome other fuitable Medicines to be 
joined with the Febrifuge ; fuch are Cephalicks, 
Narcoticks, Pedtorals, Stomachicks, Aperients, Ute- 
rines, or the like. A Phyfician, therefore, ought 
to exert great Difcernment to diftinguifh thefe 
counterfeit Symptoms, to the End that he may dis- 
cover the proper Method of Cure. Sometimes, 
for Inftance, an intermitting Fever lies concealed 
under the Appearance of an extreme Chilnefs, in- 
ceffant Vomiting, a painful Diarrhoea , Cholera mor- 
bus ^ or Colick in the Stomach, a periodical He - 
mcrania , pricking Pain in the Side, Pleurify, Perip- 
neumony, Rheumatifm, or univerfal Spafm, and 
fometimes Swooning, or even an Apoplexy •, where- 
of Examples may be feen in the Obfervations of 
the illuftrious Morton. Now, as it is not always 
eafy to difcern thefe falfe Symptoms, the Phyfici- 
an ought to confider the epidemical Conftitution 
of the Year, and likewife the State of his Patient, 
who having been afflidfced perhaps before by an in- 
termitting Fever, which had been only laid afleep, 
as it were, fuffers a Relapfe to his former Diftem- 
per. Thefe Signs, though not abfolutely infallible, 
may neverthelefs induce the Phyfician to obferve 
attentively 
