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 confirm either Doctor in his own Sentiments, and made not the leat Impreion on his Adverary.

To ay the Truth, every Phyician, almot, hath his favourite Dieae, to which he acribes all the Victories obtained over human Nature. The Gout, the Rheumatim, the Stone, the Gravel, and the Conumption, have all their everal Patrons in the Faculty; and none more than the nervous Fever, or the Fever on the Spirits. And here we may account for thoe Diagreements in Opinion, concerning the Caue of a Patient’s Death; which ometimes occur between the mot learned of the College; and which have greatly urprized that Part of the World who have been ignorant of the Fact we have above aerted.

The Reader may, perhaps, be urprized, that intead of endeavouring to revive the Patient, the learned Gentlemen hould fall immediately into a Dipute on the Occaion of his Death; but in reality, all uch Experiments had been made before their Arrival: For the Captain was put into a warm Bed, had his Veins carified, his Forehead chafed, and all Sorts of trong Drops applied to his Lips and his Notrils.