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Rh without danger of bringing a new fitt, as I have try'd by experience. This notoriously proves, 1st. That in the ordinary method, the crisis of nature is by no means compleat, when a fiit has run its whole course, without moleslation. 2. That in our cure the crisis is compleat, and perfectly agreeable to nature's purpose, therefore certain and safe. Lastly, the author of this medicin has us'd it 5 years compleatly. The returns of fitts are much seldomer, they come without any ill symptoms or irregularity. He always subdues them with great ease and expedition; has the use of his limbs, and enjoys a much better state of health than he did for many years, before he began the unction. So that we must ever answer to these kind of objections, by denying that our cure is tampering, is removing, repelling, translating the humor of the distemper; but deadning it and effectually disarming it. Nor need we seat its repullulating in any other place, for this fitt.

I cannot forbear, in this place, mentioning the late worthy and learned Dr. Walter Harris my Collegue and Friend. He honor'd me a young man with a particular intimacy. His memory is dear to me, and will live to the world, as long as his book of the diseases of children: And latest posterity will revere him, who was