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fecretion of the veffels, which open in the 
inteftines and in the {kin. A remedy, 
which would have put the nerves in a ftate 
not to be fenfible of the impreffions of the 
miafmata, would at once have flopped 
both the diarrhoea and the itch. This 
remedy would have been the quinquina, 
which put to flight the fevers occafioned 
by the fame caufe as the other difeafes juft: 
mentioned. 
The phyfician we have here brought 
forward, will be neither more judicious or 
more fortunate in his treatment of thofe 
chronic complaints, which are generally 
attributed to an acrimony in the mafs of 
fluids. Being perfuaded that it is the blood, 
which is the generator and fource of them, 
he will only attempt to corred the fancied 
depravation of it. 
The folidifts have declaimed much 
againft this dodrine and pradice, but even 
amongft thofe who have moil exerted 
fhemfelves in attempting to reform the 
fcience 
