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50 of the Blood, and preserving the Integrity and Continuity of its Parts; by which Means a Check is given to the farther Solution and Secession of them from each other; by which Means likewise, the excessive Heat is mitigated and restrained. Thus far they are both in the Right: But then they are both defective and erroneous, while the Gentlemen of the hot Regimen depend wholly, or chiefly at least, on their warm and active Cordials, opposed to Putrefaction; and the others rely too much, if not entirely, on the cooling Method. I know it will be said, that cooling Medicines, such as Juice of Lemons, and Spirit of Vitriol, are very prevalent Medicines against Putrefaction; and I allow that they are so, in their Manner of Operation, which I have explained before; that is, by confining and binding closer the sound Parts of the Blood, and so keeping them together, and preventing their farther Separation, in which Putrefaction consists: But when many Parts are already corrupted, dissolved, and thrown out of the Structure of the Blood, and cannot be re-united so as to recover their former Texture and Cohesion, it is the Province of active, generous, and enlivening Remedies, in this Juncture, to assist Nature in digesting and sending out into the Skin these ruined and mortified Particles, which cannot be performed by cold and astringent Medicines, that will rather suppress and abate the Vigour of the active ciples,