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Rh of phyic. They expect a medicine to work like a charm, and know nothing of the progres and criis of diorders. The keeping of the patient low appears cruel, all kind of regimen is diregarded, and though the fever rages, they cannot be peruaded not to give them inflammatory food, "How (ay they) can a peron get well without nourihment?"

The mind, too, hould be oothed at the ame time; and indeed, whenever it inks, oothing is, at firt, better than reaoning. The lackened nerves are not to be braced by words. When a mind is worried by care, or oppreed by