Note 114 — CHAP. II.
Reading edition
This is elegantly expressed as follows, in Sir George Baker’s learned Dissertation on this disease:—“Primo neglectus tractatu asperior occurrebat: etenim corpus extenuatum atque confectum ut morbo fervido impar erat, ita ipsi impar curationi. Itaque optimum erat occurrere ipsis principiis atque auxilia mature præripere. In hoc enim corporis affectu aliquod certe in medicina opus est, haud multum in naturæ beneficio.”