and the tongue dry and chapped, it ¢ 
washed and gargled with a mixture of water, h 
purple, black, or livid spots appear among the small pox, 
and antiseptics must be immediately administered, as yeast, 
ened with elixir vitriol. The patient’s drink ought likewise in _ 
_ be generous, as wine, or strong negus, acidulated with 
riol, vinegar, lemon juice, &c. This treatment is.also ne- _ 
essary when the matter in the pustules is thin and not duly pre- _ 
pared. Bee 
- When the eruptions strike in suddenly, before they have arrived 
at ity, the danger is very great. In this case blistering plas- 
t beapplied to the wrists and ancles, and draughts to the 
ud the patient’s spirits must be supported with cordials. 
most dangerous period of this disease, is what we call the — 
ondary fever. This generally comes on when. the small pox be-— 
1 to blacken, or turn on the face ; and most of those who die ofthe 
pox are carried off by this fever. By ie 
hard, and strong, the heat the 
other symptoms of inflammati ea 
_ suddenly pale, and if there be 
the patient supported 
its have sometimes been given 
_ terimg. plasters must be applied, 
' merous cordials. Wine and eye: 
ere 
' some face. : ae 
tis generally necessary, after the small pox are gone off, to | bead “Aid 
the patient. If, however, the body has been open through the whole 
course of the disease, or if buttermilk and other things of an. oning 
nature have been Paes cauglged the height of ie mall Pox, 
urging becomes less necessary ; but it ought never wholly 
zlected:— For young children, senna with a little rhubarb, 
used, and given in small quantities till it operates. For ac 
six years of age, sharper purges may be used, as rbhub 
doses, and repeated every third or fourth da: 
