truth tfthls may te thus render’d apparent; as firn from the
Air, the Seaïop cpLthe’Year, or an Errour in the fix Non-naturals,
in thofe places where thé’ Atmofphere abounds1 with'Saline
Particles,^ in Moift andMarfhy parts, there intermittent Fevers
Yearly Epidemically wge^ as in Holland, fome Parts of thé Weft-
Indies, in the Matfhès of Kent^Ep^ “Lincohjhire , '^anèdjBif^
and other the litre Countries, that the Air does abound with fuch
Particles in, fuch places has been before fhown , ’ from, the Sea-
fop of the Year it is'Tery clear^ .as about the Vernal,' ana Autumnal
BLquinoX) at which times of the Year above thé reft thé
Air is filled with Saline Particles, for at thefe Seafons Saline
Efflorefcences are more obfervable, as may be feen on the Lime
of Walls, and then it is thefe Fevers rage moft. ’ That they arife
from an Errour of living, is very , plain from thé meaner fort of
People!, who are moré fubjeét to them, and whofeDietis chiefly
Salted or four Meats jji to thefe we may add, that after the fit’is
ended, thé Urine often is highly Lixivialf^ftnitting a Pleafant
fmell, and depofiting a Lateritïöüs Sediment, which is very familiar
in the Scurvy, in which cafe it is allowed by a%th© Blood
abounds with Saline PaVtielesp ' hënce ’-wé liiay take- notice the
Cortex may be of no fmall ufe in Scorbutick J cafësj whbfe fuc-
cefs we have Experienced more than once;“ From what has been
faid iPïsplain ydfitèrmittent Fevers arife from Saline Particles.
Proceed Wé next to fhew the feat of the Diftempers, and this may
be evinced from the following Heads I dFirM^ From Obfervati-
ons* in cafes, and again from theOpinionsfofthe Ancients, and
their Methods of Cure, and after all, our oWn conje&ures in the
matter.
As to theHiftorical part, I will ftrft inftarice in the cafe of
Alexander Rigby, of Laton in htmcajkire, Efq; he was feized with
a Quartan Ague, that continued upon him fome Months,which
Troteus like,ftill alter’d its form, many times after the Cold trembling
fits were pafs’d,upon approach of a Hot fit, he became Epi-
leptick though of no long continuance, but by a regular method
with the Cortex, and other alterative Medicines, he perfectly recover’d,
and lived mahy Years afterwards.
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The fecond inftancef;i^pf MfS;. to the Reverend
Mft%0 g§r: of Kirkfram in E wh%f3r|a3< whole ‘Valter
-and fome part of the Spring, lhad been afflicted with a Quartan
-Ague, which at laft alter’d intg- a double Tertian ; but alas ! In-
-ftead of thofe Repiprocalreturns ufual,. (ponyulftve motions fue-'
ceeded to that degree* that foy many hours-her Limbs were all
darted,an Apbqnia,or lofs of Speech feized hersfo that'the very
Standers by concluded hetPead^Many *o£thefe fits fhe had, and
then fell into an Hipocondriac Melancholy, being called intp her
rehèf,ApperitweWpozems were prefrribed,afrerwardsthe ufo pf
Mineral WatersaudGhalybeatS|withCatharticki^dqeiritervat}
a Month -her Melancholy Vanifh’d, but 'her Aguifii. fits return’d,
■which were' only weakned; by the preceding Meth6d,;the Gétel
mith tfre bitter'alterative DecoCtion- with Rad. Serpent. Vim
were dir,edited,; which being regularly purfued fhe .recovered.
I Another cafeon; this Topick-TU produceydu, of Anri Cdmh%
Wife of Thomas Crimbell, at Stakes near Mefton miLanchJhhe^ fhe
was feized frkewife with a Quartan in. ^«t«wj^i nand .for &
'bout a Month heir' fits Were regular enough* but then a very trr-
. P S iteration enfued, it feized upon the Nerves* and inftead of
Aguifh fits, (he became Speecfokfs,..excepy fome inarticulate inward
Mutterings; her Senfe,’and Me’tfidry ’ Were loft, that fob
the time fhe knew no one nor remember’d any thing ; the’day
after cruel Spafms difturbrd her,- and thus fhe continued for four
- or five Months; about three in theAfternoon the. fits came on,and
after all fhe labour’d under a fevere Anafarca, from; which arid
her Quartan, by the ufe of-Hydragogues^'Mtifmbmïchy and the
Górtex, fhe recovered her former Health.
From thefe Hiftorical cafes iris evident the Genus Nervofum is
effected in intermittent Fevers,; it now follows, in the next
place, to confirm it by the Opinions, and Practice of the Ancients.'
That out Predeceflors in Phyfick Were Inferior to us in Anatomy,
isnöt tó be difputed* hence it was they tranfmitted to us their
Sentiments in very Ambiguous expreffions; however by Compa-
ring their Theory and- Practice together, we find they placed
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