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46 and the Pulse gow weak and depressed, which however seldom happens, then moderate Cordials are demanded, and will be very useful, such as Diascordium, Confection of Allkermes, Contrayerva-Stone, Gascoign’s Powder, &c. to the Quantity of half a Dram, which should be repeated as the Exigencies of the Patient require. It is true, that those Medicines only have hitherto been accounted Cordials, that being of a warm and generous Nature, revive the fainting and languid Spirits, but if it be considered, that when the Oppression and Disorder of the Spirits proceeds from a high and swift Motion and excessive Heat of the Blood, those Remedies also may be truly stiled Cordials, that by reducing the exorbitant Heat, and bridling the Celerity of the Pulse, bring them down to their due and healthful Standard, as well as those that raise them when they are too weak and much below that regular State; for these Remedies do as much relieve Nature when it deviates from its due Proportion of Heat and Motion, by being rais’d too high, as the warm and active ones succour and befriend it, when it is beaten down, and the Heat and Motion are below Standard; and therefore the cooling and diluting Means, that restrain the Effervescence of the Blood, and the Fury of the Fever, are as truly cordial and as much Friends to Nature in this Situation, as on the other Hand generous and Alexipharmack Remedies can be by railing and