prognostick

Whereas, those Distampers which are chiefly seated in the Fluids, and therefore acute and short, by reason of their quick and violent motion, occasioned sometimes by external Causes, and sometimes proceeding from this or that peculiar Inflammation of the Blood; irregularity and Intemperies of particular Bodies, run speedily through their Period; and are so nice and unmanagable, that, sometimes they seem to baffle Experience it self, and the very Principles of the Prognostick Art.