Your Lordships, will observe from the Case, that a reumatick Fever, attended with Pains in the Limbs and a sore Throat, was the Disorder which afflicted the _Mandarin_ TONWIN, and there never was during the seventeen Days which the Fever lasted, any thing else administred, to obtain a Cure; but Bleeding and Purging; how far that was proper in the Patients Circumstances, we shall very soon determine, we are to observe, that from the Beginning of the Doctors Attendance, the Patient shewed a great Disposition to sweat; especially in the Night-time, when it was sometimes according to the Doctors Report, to Excess. This My Lord, we look upon as an Attempt of Nature, to get rid of the malignant feverish Matter, which oppress’d her, by Means of Perspiration; and is by all Physicians, looked upon as the most common as well as the most natural Crisis of all feverish Disorders; it was my Lord the Doctors Duty, to have taken hold of this favourable Disposition of Nature, to have assisted her, by giving Medicines which would have provoked Perspiration: But he followed a quite different Course; he willfully obstructed the Grand Physician; instead of encouraging the Sweat, he made the Patient get out of Bed to avoid it; seem’d obstinately bent to obtain a Cure by nothing but purging and bleeding. As to the purging, he alledges the Patient was costive; we admit he was; but does it follow from thence, that he must be purged for seventeen Days together: The harder the Patient was to work upon, the greater Reason the Doctor had to desist purging; especially using any Medicine that would inflame the Bowels, which Jallop certainly does; purging naturally weakens the strongest Constitution, without the Assistance of an acute Distemper; but how weak must that Patient be, who suffer’d the Weight of both, and another Evacuation as destructive of natural Strength as the other, _viz._ Bleeding. As to the Bleeding, the Doctor would insinuate from this Case, that he could not take too much Blood from the Patient, since notwithstanding the monstrous Quantity taken, the Vessels seemed overcharged, and it burst out at the Nostrils; but the Doctor is not aware that two Causes absolutely different, will produce the self same Effect as too great a Quantity of Blood may produce an Hemorrage; and too small a Quantity the same; in the one Case the Vessels are distended beyond their proper Tone, and in the other as much below it; which was certainly the Case of the honourable Patient unhappily the Subject of the present Debate; the Texture of the Blood and Vessels were broken by the vast Quantity taken away, and a Mortification of the Ulcers in the Throat naturally followed; as Nature had not sufficient Strength left, to stimulate the Blood, and keep it in its proper Motion; besides, the Regimen of Dyet prescribed by the Doctor, was quite preposterous; Milk is naturally hot, and as it is of the Nature of prepared Chyle, turns too soon to Aliment, to be proper in