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upon'thofe who have not a fufficient fhare of 
judgment and experience. Mr. Attwood, 
aged 60, who lived in Cheapfide, after 
having had the fever for three or four days 
appeared to be better, but was feized al- 
raoft inftantaneoufly with fpafms of the 
ftomach and inteftines, vomitings and ex¬ 
traordinary dejections per anum, as in the 
cholera morbus, which put him into a 
hate of imminent danger. Some medi¬ 
cines, among# which was liquid lauda¬ 
num, abated the violence of the fymp- 
toms. When the paroxyfm was over, the 
phyfician ordered a preparation of bark, 
with a view to prevent a new attack, and 
in this he was not difappointed, as the 
cholera never again returned, but the dif- 
eafe prefented itfelf under the form of a 
regular tertian. (Morton, de Protei form, 
feb. intermit. Gen. Hift. 7.) 
It very feldom happens that a periodical 
difeafe changes its character to take on that 
of 
