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he would not have fuffered himfelf to be 
impofed upon with thefe fymptoms, nor 
would he have committed faults which too 
prove irreparable. 
Let us not however lofe fight of our 
phyfician. He happens to refide in a large 
town where are epidemic intermittent fe¬ 
vers. As he unfortunately enjoys a con- 
liderable degree of reputation, he has an 
opportunity of feeing feveral patients in 
the courfe of the day, amongft whom, 
fome are affe&ed with fevers, others have 
not any fever, but are diftreflfed with a di¬ 
arrhoea, and others have an itch or erup¬ 
tion on the lkin t all equally epidemic. 
He begins by vomiting the fever-patient, 
then purges, and laftly, though late, ad¬ 
min ifters the Peruvian bark, and he gets 
well* . 
A fpurgative is the firfl: medicine em¬ 
ployed in the cafes of diarrhoea, and it is 
repeated according as circumftances appear 
to 
