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c^2 Of the manifefi Signs AFTER the principal Load of Hu- mours 3t the Stomach are thrown up, a very frothy Bile, fermenting like Yeft, follows, that in its Colour is greenifh, and fometimes £o fetid, that a Perfon cannot endure the Room without holding his Nofe; fuch is the prodigious Putrefaction and Malignity in fome of thefe Cafes. BUT where the Ufe of Medicines, other- wife efFe&ual to ftop the moll obftinate Vo- miting, proves ineffectual, and there follows a great Third; and Heat, it gives ftrong Su-. fpicion of Carbuncles in the Stomachy and immediate Death, fo that the infedted as it were vomit up their Souls, which (if we be- lieve Helmoni) have their Reiidence there ; but this will be further fpoke of in the Prog- nofticks. BUT before I proceed any further, the Health of my Country, and the Concern of Pofterity, oblige me to take Notice of the pernicious Pra&ice of Empiricks of all Or- ders, with whom it was a Cnftom to give Emetkks *, for certainly many were deftroyed by this pradice, the convulfive Reachings to vomit being carried beyond a Poflibility to bear