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Deſultory Thoughts.
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of phyſic. They expect a medicine to work like a charm, and know nothing of the progreſs and criſis of diſorders. The keeping of the patient low appears cruel, all kind of regimen is diſregarded, and though the fever rages, they cannot be perſuaded not to give them inflammatory food, "How (ſay they) can a perſon get well without nouriſhment?"
The mind, too, ſhould be ſoothed at the ſame time; and indeed, whenever it ſinks, ſoothing is, at firſt, better than reaſoning. The ſlackened nerves are not to be braced by words. When a mind is worried by care, or oppreſſed
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