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life, good food, and tonic medicines are 
the means beft adapted to oppofe the at¬ 
tacks of this terrible difeafe. 
We have daily examples of partial con¬ 
sumptions, where there is not any doubt 
of the ftate of the nerves being the caufe. 
Thus it is very feldom, that a paralytic 
limb preferves for any long time the fame 
degree of plumpnefs with the correfpond- 
ing healthy limb. In the fciatica, the dif- 
eafed extremity waftes very much; but no 
fooner does nature or art change the mor¬ 
bid condition of the fciatic nerve, but the 
limb regains its natural mufcularity. 
Can the nerves increafe the nutrition of 
parts under certain circum fiances, as well 
as contribute to diminifh it ? This is cre¬ 
dible, as we obferve, that in long continued 
intermittents, when the addon of the nerves 
is determined to the fpleen, this vifcus 
becomes enlarged. This enlargement of 
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