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this animal died or recovered, but he adds, 
that he faw many cafes where inefficient 
blows had been given, in confequence of 
which difcharge took place from the nof- 
trils, and they got well of a difeafe which 
was confidered as incurable. 
It is well known that an emetic fre¬ 
quently cures intermittents, and thefe cures 
ought certainly not to be attributed to an 
evacuation of depraved humours from the 
ftomach, for it is not there that the mi- 
afma exilts. Morton, fpeaking of the 
cures of fevers effected by the Vinum Be- 
nedidtum, attributes them rather to the 
orgafm excited in the animal fpirit during 
the adtion of vomiting, which orgafm 
likewife frequently cures other nervous 
diforders. 
The courfe of difeafes in general is 
confined within certain determinate and 
fixed limits. Sydenham having made this 
obfervation, in order to explain it, had 
recourfe 
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