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This obfervation is far from being un¬ 
productive to a phyfician; on the contrary, 
it is of the greateft importance to him. A 
phyfician, who has not'any information 
upon this head, and who ihould meet with 
a patient, whofe fweat is extremely offen- 
five, and itools liquid and and putrid, 
would pronounce, with a confidence which 
is the natural refult of ignorance, that the 
mafs of fluids has a tendency to putridity 
and diffolution, or that it is already in that 
Hate. 
If the fame phyfician were to vifit a man 
ill of a' fever, whofe tongue is parched, (kin 
dry, urine intenfely high-coloured and 
fparing, he would give it as his opinion, 
that there obtained an inflammatory dia- 
thefis of the blood. Thefe falfe principles 
will regulate and direct his practice, and. 
be the l'ource of fatal confequences. 
If he ha.d known how much the nerves 
are capable of doing with the fecretions, 
he 
