Mrs. Dodd smiled, and proceeded to Hyperaemia, and thence to the
Antiphlogistic Regimen,

At that unhappy adjective, Sampson jumped up, cast away his patient's
hand, forgot her existence--she was but a charming individual--and
galloped into his native region, Generalities.

"Antiphlogistic! Mai--dear--mad'm, that one long fragmint of ass's jaw
has slain a million. Adapted to the weakness of human nature, which
receives with rivirince ideas however childish, that come draped in
long-tailed and exotic words, that aasimine polysyllable has riconciled
the modern mind to the chimeras of th' ancients, and outbutchered the
guillotine, the musket, and the sword: ay, and but for me

Had barred the door
For cinturies more

on the great coming sceince, the sceince of healing diseases, instead of
defining and dividing 'em and lengthening their names and their durashin,
and shortening nothing but the pashint. Th' Antiphlogistic Therey is
this: That disease is fiery, and that any artificial exhaustion of vital
force must cool the system, and reduce the morbid fire, called, in their
donkey Latin 'flamma,' and in their compound donkey Latin 'inflammation,'
and in their Goose Greece, 'phlogosis,' 'phlegmon,' &c. And accordingly
th' Antiphlogistic Practice is, to cool the sick man by bleeding him,
and, when blid, either to rebleed him with a change of instrument, bites
and stabs instid of gashes, or else to rake the blid, and then blister
the blid and raked, and then push mercury till the teeth of the blid,
raked, and blistered shake in their sockets, and to starve the blid,