ABSTRACT
§I. When the former Intention has been sufficiently and succesfully pursu'd, so that the Blood is return'd to its due Degree of Thinness, Fluidity and Balsam; when the Acuteness of the Pains, and the Violence of the Symptoms are leffen'd by the ponderous Remedies, and the Fits or Paroxysins are less severe or frequent: then the Medicines of this Class may be united and compounded with those of the former, to sheath and blunt the Acrimony of the Salts, and the Sharpness of the Juices, discharg'd from the small Veflels: to scour and cleanse the internal Sides of these Vessels yet further: and drive the ponderous Medicines into the most remote Capillaries where the Disorder first begins, and is most rooted: there to open a Passage for the Circulation and Perspiration, and remove any Obstructions, putrid or stagnant Juices, and so to bring all the Secretions to a regular Order, and the whole Mass of the Fluids to a due Degree of Sweetness and Balsam. This Method and Order must necessarily be follow'd, where a total and absolute Cure is intended or expected: But where a Palliative Cure only is design'd, these may be blended with the former, even from the beginning of the Cure. And where the Blood is in that Condition, which I have mention'd as the last and worst State: diey may even take the Place of the former and go before them, if there be any reasonable Hopes of Success; because the great Degree of Acrimony diffus'd thro’ the. whole Mafs of Blood, requires a more immediate Attention and Application, than die removing of Obstruttions; (which is often the Case in many Scorbutick, Heεtick, Iεterical, Scropbulous and Cancerous Habits;) at least the Medicines for the Second Intention, are the absolutely necessary: and the only Means that can effectuate a Palliative Cure, and relieve the Symptoms then.
