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hour twice at leaft in twenty-four hours. If the 

 weather be very fevere, the curtains may be drawn 

 fo as to prevent the current of air from blowing on 

 the lick perfon; but if the weather be mild or 

 warm, the door and windows mould be open thro* 

 the day and even the night. There cannot be the 

 leaft neceffity why the air mould be warmer for a 

 perfon ill of a fever than for a perfon in health, but 

 many reafons why we fhould wilh it cooler. To 

 keep a fick perfon's chamber well aired, (I mean 

 here not by fires, but by opening the doors and 

 windows) contributes not only to the benefit of the 



fick perfon, but to the fafety of the attendants.- 



Many fevers, which were at firft fimply inflamma- 

 tory, have become by heat, confinement of air, and 

 other improper treatment, putrid and contagious. 

 It is obvious that if the complaint originally be of 

 a putrid tendency, thefe cautions become doubly 

 necefTary. 



The proportion of bed-clothes is a circumftance 

 of great moment. Thefe muft be meafured partly 

 by the age of the patient and nature of the com- 

 plaint, but principally by the feelings of the fick 

 perfon. I have often obferved, that much of the 

 reftlefihefs attending fevers, which is fo trouble- 

 fome and fatiguing a fymptom, and fo exhaufting 

 of the ftrength of the patient, is owing to the quan- 

 tity 



