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If chereFore we can put little E miffariet on thc Nerve, that is more especial-ly concernM in the Heart’s Contra/ion, we fhall hinder any P repar at ion inthe Blood for Separating fb great a Number os Spirits ; which is one great Re-quisite : Nay, we fhall make Secrettcns of that fort, and in that way as intime of Health ; and if there be but Secretions, iheCcnirittng Parts, and thoseto be broke down, fhall have no such a dose Contad, and iherefore that ex-traordinary Quantity of Spirits (hall not be Prepared in the Blood-, and if thcyare not P repar'd, they cannot be Separated from it; or a Moderate Quantityof Animal Spirits fhall be conveyed into the Muscular Vibret of the Heart :or again, which is the sime thing, its Contrais ion fhall be Natural ; Andall rhis may be done, or begin to be done, in 2 or 3 Mimtet.

But How we fhall Apply a Blister , that may Wound the ConvestngNervet, is the only Question that remains. To do this we muli remember»That the 8 th Fair of Nervet, which serres for the Heart't ContraisCn, hasits Rise from the sides of the Medulla Oblongata behind the Proceffut Annula-ris,, by scveral Threds which joyn together, and go out by the sime Holethat the Sinus laterales difcharge themselves into the yugulars: And sinesthe Union by the Atlas, is not so sirm and compact as in the o:her Vertebra,it is evident, that there is no extraordinary hindrance, why forne of thesc' WounMng parts may not come at that Nerve. But if you Reflect again,that this Nerve, or considerable Branches of it, run superficially enough onthe Neck, you will have lesi difficulty to apprehend how forne of (hem areWounded, and to understand how these Miraculous Effects do Happen, andare Produced. Or, it is easy to understand how the small parts of Canthari-des can wound the 8th Pair, or by Wounding its Branches derive from theNerve it seif, and Lefftn the Motion of its Liquor. Or, ’tis not hard to Ap-prehend how Wound sag by Cantharides hinders the Disposition of SeparatingSpirits , and Intercepit them in their way to the Heart ; How they make itsweaker Contraction, and a flower Pulse, Or again, it is evident, How thesmall Emiffaries made in this way can Cure a Fever , and a Delirium, in aflwrter time than is fupposed in the Tropoßtion,

From this Discoursewe may deduce these Corollaries. 1. That the Ope-ration of a Blister is great and soddain ; That the Wounding of rhis Nerve,or a Branch, is so absolutely necessary for Curing a Delirium and a Fever,that whatfoever Msfchtef the applying of vastNumbers of Bhfiers over alltheBody may do, yetthe Main End is neglected, if you sorget a large onehigh on the Nop of the Neck. 2- That if there is no Veßcation aster thelaying on a strong Plaister, it necefsarily cstablifhes a new and prodigiousHardnefs in the Skin and Veffels, and a Thickning of the Blood forafurtherTotal Stop.

XXXI. About thebeginning of November, 1693. aster a constant Courseof moderately Warm Weather for the Seafbn, upon forne Snow falling intheMountains ani Country about ihe Town, of a siidden it grew extream-ly Gold, and soon aster succeeded some few Days of very hard Froß ; where-upon Rheums of all kinds, such as violent Coughs that chiefly affeited in the

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