The Generality ofMen, have for a longtime had too NarrowThoughts of Physick, as ifit were in a manner Confin’dto little more than Internals,without allowing themselvesthe Liberty of common Reasoning,by which they easilymight have found that the HumaneBody is liable to, andrequires several Administrationsof a very DifferentNature, and that it is veryunreasonable to suppose, thatsince there are so many waysfor Diseases to enter upon us,there should be so few forHealth to return by. Internalsdo indeed make up thefar greatest part of the Meansof Cure, but yet there areConsiderable Cases, wherethe very Nature of the thingrequires other Methods; andthis would appear very obvious,if it were not for our tooPartial Consideration of theBody of Man, by attributingtoo much to the Fluids, andtoo little to the Solids, bothwhich, tho’ they have a MutualDependance upon oneanother, yet have each of ’emsome Proprieties, and ifout of Order, require somethingparticular in the Applicationto restore ’em again.Consent in the Solids, answersto Mixture in the Fluids; andas an ill Ferment, as soon asit comes into the Blood, diffusesand mixes it self withthe whole Mass, and cannotoften be extirpated, till theMedicine given for that end,has been taken so long as to bediffus’d and intimately mix’dwith the Blood likewise; soa Violent Seizure in one ofthe Solid Parts, commonlydraws all the rest into Consent,and a particular Applicationto the Place primarilyaffected shall do no good, whena Universal one shall Cure;and a thing which would betrivial and Vain, if us’d as aTopick, shall by a UniversalAdministration prove of thegreatest Importance. Wesee Contraries often proveRemedies to one another in theJuices, and Poisons becomeBeneficial, when oppos’d tocertain Humours, why shouldwe not then allow of the sameRule, in the Containing Partsof the Body? If by a SupineCourse of Life, the Nervousparts are weakned andrelax’d, why should we not