IN relating the facts that are contained in this essay, I wish I could have avoided reasoning upon them; especially as I am confident of the certainty of the facts, and somewhat doubtful of the truth of my rea|sonings.I SHALL only add, that if the cure of consumpti|ons should at last be effected by remedies in every re|spect the opposites of those palliatives which are now fashionable and universal, no more will happen than what we have already seen in the tetanus, the small|pox, and in the management of fractured limbs.SHOULD this be the case, we shall not be surprised to hear of physicians, instead of prescribing any one, or all of the medicines formerly enumerated for con|sumptions, ordering their patients to exchange the amusements or indolence of a city, for the toils of a country life; of their advising farmers to exchange their plentiful tables, and comfortable fire-sides, for the scanty but solid subsistence, and midnight expo|sure of the herdsman; or of their recommending, not so much the exercise of a passive sea-voyage, as the active labors and dangers of a common sailor. Nor should it surprise us, after what we have seen, to hear patients relate the pleasant adventures of their ex|cursions, or labors, in quest of their recovery from this disorder, any more than it does now to see a strong or well shaped limb that has been broken; or to hear a man talk of his studies, or pleasures, during the time of his being inoculated and attended for the small|pox.0