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avoided. - By this:courfe the fever in a few days may generally be brought to a pretty 
regular or diftin& intermiffion, in which cafe, the Peruvian bark may be adminitter- , 
ed, and it will feldom fail to perfeét the cure: 
BE ei THE SMALL ber as ah 
THE feel a is commonly caught by infection, Since the difeafe was firit 
brought from Arabiainto Europe, the infection has never been wholly extinguifhed ; 
nor have any, proper-methods been taken for that purpole; fo that now it has be- 
come in.a manner,conftitutional. Children who have over-heated themfelves by 
running, wreftling, &c. or adults after a debauch, are moft apt to be feized with the 
{mall-pox. , The difeafe is fo generally known, that a minute defcription of it is. 
- unneceffary. Children commonly loek dull, feem liftlefs and drowly, fora few days, 
before the more violent fymptoms of the’ {mall-pox appear. They are likewife 
more inclined to drink than vfual, have little appetite for folid food, complain of 
wearinefs, and, upon taking exercife, are apt to {weat. Thefe are fucceded by flight 
fits of heat and cold in turns, which, as the time of the eruption approaches, become 
more violent, and are accompanied with pains of the head and.loins, vomiting, 8c, 
The pulfe is quick, with a great heat of the fkin, and reftleffnefs.. When the. patient 
drops afleep, he wakes in a kind of horror, witha fudden ftart, which is a very.com-: 
mon fymptom of the approaching eruption; ‘as are alfo convulfion-fits in very. 
young children. “The moft favourable fymptoms are a flow eruption, and an abate-; 
ment of the fever as foon as the puftules appear. Ina mild diftiné kind of fmall- 
pox, the puftules feldom appear before the fourth day from the time of fickening, 
and they generally keep coming out gradually for feveral days after. Puftules 
_ which are diftiné, with a florid red bafis, and which fill with thick purulent Pm 
ter, firft of a whitifh, and afterwards of a yellowifh, colour, are the beft. [tis a 
moft unfavourable fymptom when petechiz, or purple, brown, or black, fpots, are 
interfperfed among the puftules. Thefe are figns of a putrid diffolution of the blood, 
and fhew the danger to be very great. . Bloody ftools,,. or urine, with a {welled belly, 
are bad fymptoms ; as is alfo a continual ftranguary. Pale. urine and a violent throb- 
bing of the arteries of the neck are figns of an approaching delirium, or of convul- 
fion-fits. When the face does not {well, or falls before the pock.comes to maturity, 
it is very unfavourable. If the face begins to fall.about the eleventh or twelfth 
day, and at the fame time the hands and feet begin to fwell, the patient generally 
does well; but, when thefe do not facceed to exch ater, there is a reafon to appre- 
hend danger. ay HES use 
CURE..--All that is pte Sey dines heefaptive fever, is to se: the patient 
cool and eafy, allowing nee sas freely of fome weak diluting. Hoses og 
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