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hopes of any probable remedy, tothe confe- 
quence of their difeafe; he hath at laf 
vouchfafed, by the means of the faid Signior, 
to make known a fpecific, as eafily procured 
as it is ufeful to the relief and eafe of the af- 
fidted. 
‘¢ The repeated trials made with my own 
hands, not as a phyfician, which perhaps. 
would not be of fo. much importance, but as 
the averfeer of an infirmary which is under 
my own management, perfuades me of what, 
without any exaggeration, I affirm; and 
Rotwithftanding thofe who acknowledge the- 
ory as the only guide cf their medical opera- 
tions, confidering, for my part, experience 
2s the tale-bearer of facts, I freely fay, that 
the {mearing with oil, after the manner of 
Mr. Batpwin, is the only medicament 
which practically feems to promife to turn 
gut a real mett#od, by which we may be 
enabled to cure this contagious difeafe, which 
difgracefully * and that all 
the other difcoveries, which during full 
twenty years that I have afhifted thofe a‘Hitted 
With the plague, I have feen ufed in Smyr- 
na, have in general appeared to be the pro- 
duGions of prefumptuous ignorance, or 
wretched oftentation5 and, therefore, not 
enly ufelefs, but prejudicial to fuch as, with 
@ foolish enthuiiafm, put their tru inthem. 
*¢ I fhall not attempt philofophically ta 
account for the facts I am about to detail. 
But guided, as I have already faid, by expe- 
rience alone, I fubm:it the obfervations I 
have uninterruptedly. made on the effeés of 
the un¢tion, during a period of five months, 
to the difpaffionate judgment of thofe who 
are acquainted with fucis matters, hoping, 
that they will not attribute to impofture or 
deceit what is faid in the pure fpirit of do- 
ing good to my fellow men. 
“¢ I have feen, then, that the inunétion 
with oil 
and acts rather by fhutting than by opening 
the pores 
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but over the whole of the body, fo 
as to produce a moft copious fweat, preferves 
for the moft part from new foundation of 
buboes, and tends te bring thofe which have 
already appeared to a fuppuration, with the 
affiftance of emollient cataplafms, which, in 
general, are extinguifhed with the cefiation 
of the fweat.* ; 
“© Secondly, I have obferved that the in- 
un¢tion fhould be followed by a conSiderable 
degree of fri€tion of the limbs of the patient; 
and alfo, that thefe remedies fhould be ap- 
plied as foon as poffible after the attack -of 
the difeafe ; for if four or five days are fuf- 
fered to elapfe, as has happened in forne pa- 
tients, they are no longer of any ufe. 
*¢ Thirdly, That none have been be- 
nefited by the inun@ion, however accu- 
rately performed, whofe nervous fyftem has 
been attacked by the malady, or who were 
afflicted with diarrhea, both of which have 

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Father Lewis on the Cure of the Plagues 
always been confidered by me, as well 4s be 
others, as fatal fymptoms in this complaint, 
impofiible to remedy. 
_¢€ Fourthly, Exclufive of thofe already 
feized with’ thefe mortal fymptoms, I attri- 
bute to the inun&tion with oil, in which I 
repofe the greateft confidence, the cure of 
fixty-four of my patients, who amounted this 
year to the number of one hundved and ff- 
teen; as -weil as fixty-five others, which 
either by me, or by Signior Ebazaro d@Etian, 
phyfician to the plague-hotpital, were anoint- 
ed in this manner; and J conclade, that if 
the inunétion did not fucceed with thefe who 
died, it was either becaufe the confultant” 
phyficians rcfufed ita trial, or becaufe it was 
not had recourfe tointime, or becaufe it-was 
not followed up with the requiiite attention.” 
g ee 
To the Editer of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
cc HY has the DIALOGUE-way 
of writing gone into difufe> 
Why do. our dramas of the prefent day 
afford no dialogues, in which wit, hu- 
mour, and native character are difplayed, 
in union with fenfe and fpirit ?”"—Thefe 
are queftions to the one of which we may 
give a tolerably {atisfaétory anfwer, 
by obferving, that men do not now, as 
in the days of Plato and Cicero, gain 
their knowledge in fo confiderable a pro- 
portion from viva voce inftruétion, as 
to be naturally led to imitate the fame 
form, even when communicating {cience 
through the medium of books; but that, — 
on the contrary, fo little are we now ac- 
cuttomed to receive inttruGtion, otherwife 
than from books, that whenever we at= 
tempt to teach with the living voice, we 
are, from this circumftance, led to prefer 
the dull formal lefture, which imitates 
the reading of a book, to the lively and 
varied dialogue, which might make 
{cience wear the bewitching, unftudied 
air of cafual aud carelefs converfation. 
- The other I fhall, for the prefent, leave 
to be anfwered by Meflrs. REYNOLDS, 
MoRTON, CUMBERLAND, or by whom- 
foever elfe it may concern.’ ; 
Nothing has. lately contributed fe 
much to confirm a partiality which the 
writings of Plato and Cicero, and of 
Erafmus, that black fwan of Holland, 
long fince led me to conceive, in favour ef -- 
the dialogue-form of compofition ; as the 
perufal of that fine work, * IJ Cortegi- 
ano,” by Conte Baldaflar Caftiglione. 
The defign of this. work is, to explain 
what native qualities and acquirements 
of education are neceflary, to accomplifh 
a gentleman and a lady tor fhining with 
ditinétion ig a court. It was written 
after 
