24 'dn Hijiorical Account moft in averting the common Ruin? In the fame Manner as in a Fire all Hands are required, even of the Croud as well as Workmen, to extinguiffi it. BUT in this Cafe my own Opinion is determined: In the Concerns of Health, a Perfon muft. proceed with more Caution and Deliberation than in the fuppofed Cafe of a Fire y for there are Difficulties occur in the Practice of Medicine which are in- fuperable but by the Learned and the fine Texture of a humane Body is not to be ma- naged by as clumfie Hands as the Materials of a Houfe ° in the former, if a Perfon makes a Miflake, it is with great Difficulty repair- ed 7 and therefore upon a ferious Confidera- tion of the whole Affair, I cannot make any Doubt, but that it is much better even to want Phyiicians in fuch Calamities, than to have the Sick under the Care and Manage- ment of the unlearned} for fuch Perfons, like thofe who fight blindfold, know not in what Parts to attack the Enemy, nor with what Weapons to do it 7 befides which, they alfo are in Hazard of obftru&ing thefe Ef- forts of Nature, which would many Times without Help, if not thus hindred, get the. better of tjie Diftemper. • NOR
