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generally thought neceffary to regulate the diet for fome time before the difeafe be 
‘communicated. In ‘children, however, great alteration in diet is feldom neceffary, 
their food being commonly of the moft fimple and wholefome kind, as mil ik, water. 
gruel, weak broths, bread,-light pudding, mild roots, and white meats. We would 
recommend no other medicinal preparation than two or three mild purges, which 
ought to be fuitec to the age and ftrength of the patient. The fuccefs of inoculae 
tors does not depend on the preparation of their patients, but on their management. 
ef them while under the difeafe. Their conftant care fhould be to keep them cool, 
and their bodies gently open, by which means the fever is kept low, and the eruption. 
greatly lefened. The danger is feldom great when the puftules are few; and their. 
number i is generally in proportion to the fever which precedes and attends the erup- 
tion. Hence the chief fecret of inoculation confifts in regulating the eruptive fever, 
which generally may be kept fufficiently low by the methods mentioned above. 
The regimen during the difeafe is in all refpects the fame as under the natural fmall- 
pox. The patient muit be kept cool, his diet fhould be light, and bis drink weak 
and diluting, &c. Should any bad fymptom appear, which is feldom the cafe, they 
mutt be treated i in the fame way as directed in the natural {mall-pox. Purging is 
not lefs neceffary after the fmall-pox by inoculation than in the natural way, and 
ought my: no means to be neglected, 
fi Ge (fue "MEA SEES: 
_ THIS difeafe, like the {mall-pox, proceeds from infeétion, and is more or lefs dan- 
gerous according, to the conftitution of the patient, the feafon of the year, the cli-, 
mate, &c. It is ufually preceded by a fhort cough, a heavinefs of the head and eyes, 
drowfinefs, and a running at the nofe. There is an inflammation and heat in the 
eyes, with a defluxion of fharp tears, vomiting, and great acutenefs of fen{ation, 
- fo that the patient cannot bear the light without pain. About the fourth day, fmall 
fpots, refembling flea-bites, appear, firft upon the face, then upon the brealt, and 
afterwards on the extremities: thefe may be diftinguifhed from the fmall-pox by 
h \ it {carcely rifing above the fkin. The fever, cough, and difficulty of breathing, 
“inftead of being removed by the eruption, as in the {mall-pox, are rather increafed ; 
miting generally | ceafes. About the fixth or feventh day from the time 
the meafles begin to turn pale on the face, and afterwards upon the 
3 j the ninth day they entirely difappear. Such as die of the ‘meafles 
generally ¢ expire z out the ninth day from the invafion, and are commonly carried off 
by inflammation of the lungs. The moft favourable fymptoms are, a moderate 
loofeneis, a moitt fkin, and a plentiful difcharge of urine. When the eruption 1 fud- 
denly falls in, and the Patient is feized with a delirium, he is in the greateft bre 
