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 of the late Te/iilence. i 5 9 lution, and Reftitution to its priftine State of Fluidity, as alfo more ftrongly inclofing the peftilential Poifon at the fame Time } it is alfo greatly to be feared, that in fo great an Agitation the morbifick Venom may be drawn to the Bowels, and Sphace- lation follow thereupon. THAT Purging may be alfo pra£H(ed with Succefs, the Strength of the Patient is carefully to be confulted, for where the Spirits are low, or deficient, it may not only prove unfafe, but fatal •, and where the Bowels are extreamly Simulated by the Cathartick, and the Humours greatly put into Fufion by its ratifying Qualities, they will be apt to pais off in too large a Profufion. WHAT can a Perfon likewife expect to do with a Cathartick, in Diforders of the Spirits? It certainly appears to me more likely to purge away all the Humours of the Body, than re-kindle the Spirits that are oppreffed, cloudy, and almoft extinct, by fuch Means j and further, as the Sub- til ty of the peftilential Poifon inclines it rather to efcape by the fuperficial Pores, than the larger Emun&ories, this Me- thod