and prevent the Plague. Q5% 
#ubbing their bodies over with warm oil; and others not 
vet infected were prteferved from it by the fame means. 
Experiments were made, by Mr. Baldwin’s defire, in the 
hofpital of St. Anthony at Smyrna; and P. Luigi di 
Payia*, chaplain to the hofpitaly..who, for twenty-feven 
years has becn of fo much feryice during us iods when this 
difeafe prevailed, afferts that. of all the pemiccics be aren am 
ployed, olive oil has been the moit effeScual. The ‘einer 
‘information, in regard to the manner of employing this 
remedy and preventiye, was communicated to Count von 
Berchtold by the above P. Luigi. 
This excellent cure for the plague confifts in rubbing 
olive oil, with the ftrongeft fri€tion, into the whole body of 
the infeéted perfon. When the body is thus rubbed, the 
pores being opened imbibe the oil, anda profufe porfpira- 
tion takes place, by which the poifonous infection is again 
thrown out. This operation muft be performed the firft day 
of the infection; and if only a weak perfpiration enfues, it 
mutt be repeated till it is obferved that every particle of in- 
fe€tion is remoyed, and that the whole body of the patient 
-is covered with a profufe fweat. Neither the patient's fhirt 
nor bed-clothes muft be changed till the perfpiration has 
** Mr, Howard, in his work on Lazarettos, page 32, fays: ‘ Fra. Luigi 
de Pavia, prior of the hofpital of San Antonio of Smyrna, is a native of 
Padua, of the order of Recolets. He built and eftablifhed an hofpital about 
twenty-feven years fince, and has applied the whole of the penfion he re- 
ceiyes from his family to its benevolent purpofes. Patients of all ranks are 
admitted without a fee; and what is contributed by thofe of the better 
fort is added to the common fteck. He does not pretend to any frill in me 
dicine, but tries every plaufible experiment with unremitted attention, and 
frequently performs the moft menial offices himfelf. Having been infected 
himfelf with the plague, he made a vow to attend one perfon at leaft, if he 
recovered. His fuecefs has induced him to dedicate the remainder of his 
life to that fervice. He has lately adopted the o/led Shirt wb frilion, 
and found it a remedy of more frequent avail than many others. He coin- 
putes, with the ftriéteft veracity, that of his patients nearly two thirds 
have efcaped death. é Eprt. 
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