THEREFORE the ingenious Doctrine of the Excellent Doctor Harris, must certainly take place here, namely[[194]],that the most temperate Things most securely absorb the prevailing Acidity, and that the more Simple and Gentle the Remedies are, the more Safe and Certain the Cure is.
HENCE the simple Testaceous Medicines mentioned by him, are not to be paralleled in the present Case; since they effectually mitigate all Ebullitions, and gradually become the most safe and powerful Anodines: Insomuch, that they, in a word, as certainly asswage all the Pains, Gripes, Disquiets, Watchings, &c. of Children; as Narcoticks, or Opiats, do allay those of older People.
THE Body being then alter’d by these means, and the Humours duly prepared, they are to be forthwith ejected, or timely purged off, even from the youngest Infants, as well as from those of riper Years: The Doses and Quantities of all sorts, being discreetly adapted to the Age and Strength of the Child, under what Form soever they may be given.
UPON this Head, I might indeed pretend to expatiate, but because, whatever I, or any other ingenuous Person, understanding the Matter in Hand, may attempt to offer, will only terminate in, and be consentaneous to, what my last quoted Author has plainly laid down, and concisely comprehended in a few emphatick Words; I shall here also, for Brevity’s-sake, set Bounds to my Progress. And thus, in short, having at large, and in every particular Respect, faithfully discharged my Duty, both as Physician and Midwife, to the Child as well as to the Mother; I now take leave of both the one and the other, and in the next place, come briefly to touch upon the Reverse Cases.
SECT. VII.
CHAP. I.
Of Præternatural Conceptions.
