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dentary life, and a natural turn to melancholy. The caufes of this, and of the tertian, feem to be the fame, only that in this they are ftronger. Method of cure. The general cuftom of curing intermktents by vomits and the Peruvian bark alone, is cenfufed by Stahl, and many other writers, as being faulty in two extremes; the vomiting throwing off the offending matter with too much violence, and the bark locking it up in the body. Vomits, when injudicioufly given, often give violent Teachings, with- out bringing up any part of the matter of the difeafe ; and the bark, and other aftringents, bring on obftinate coftivenefs, flatulencies, ftraitnefs of the breaft, and many other difordersj

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fuch as, the jaundice, dropfy, cedemntous fwellmgs, and many other the like complaints, which often fucceed the too large or injudicious ufe of it : for this reafon, thefe authors prefer a regular method, by inciding the tough matter in the primse vis, with tartarum vitriolatum, and the like, then the giving a gentle emetic ; after this, gentle diaphoretics and diluents, fuch as all warm and weak liquors ; and afterwards ftrengthen- ing the ftomach and bowels by bitters and fubaftr in gents, among which the bark has its place, tho' in fmaller quantities than when trufted to alone in the ufual way. Junker's Confp. Med. p. 36ot

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