of peftilentidl Vifeajes. 67 have wrote on this Subject, which is the Sal Volatile Oleofum, if it be well loaded with the eifential Oils of Spicy Ingredients ^ although indeed with fome Constitutions more fetid Compositions are very Suitable but they all agree in carrying into the Habit Some- what that both recruits, and guards the Spirits againSt any foreign Mixture, or from unnatu- ral Separations of their Saline and humid Parts. And to the Same End, in rpbuft Constitu- tions, who have been accuStomed to fare hard^ the Spirit or Oil of Turpentine frequently drank ih fmall Dofes might be a great Means to prefer ve the poorer Sort from Infe&idn. A S to the curative Part in fuch a terrible Visitation, it cannot be expe&ed that Rules can be given fuitable to every one's Cafe but by fuchas attend upon them-, and the moSt that can be in general iaid down. to this Purpofe^ may be collected from the preceding Trea- tife of Dr. Hodges. Although as to the Choice 0^ Alexipharmich, they are certainly beSt that are moSt Subtile^ and capable of be- ing carried, by the Courie of Circulation, into the fineSt Receffes of the Constitution, where- into it is manifeft the extream Subtilty of the pestilential Poifon is capable to enter : And amongft all of this Oafs, I take Camphlre Ei to
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