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dav, left it might occafion indigeftion, which is very danger® 
ous and often mortal in this diforder, and give rife to a new 
breaking-out of peftilential boils. After the fortieth day T 
allowed them to cat boiled as well as roafted veal, and to 
drink moderately ef wine; but I recommended te them to 
abftain from fifh, falted provifions, pork, four fruits, and, in 
general, every thing that either by quantity or quality might 
occafion indigeftion. 
This regimen: bas been the refult of obfervations made in 
the courfe’ of twenty-fever: years, durmg which F have at- 
tended patients attacked by the plague. It has been ap- 
proved by the ableft phyficians; and long experience has 
fhewn that, it is the beft calculated to guard againft the dan- 
gerous confequences of this horrid difeafe. 
According to the aecounts of Mr. Baldwin, among the 
thoufands who died of the plague in Upper and Lower Egypt, 
there was not one perfon who had been employed in 
earrying oil; from which I concluded that oil muft alfo be 
a prefervative agaimft it. I therefore put im praétice this 
idea in regard tv all thofe perfons who were infected without 
knowing it, and I always found it infallible im its, effeéts, as 
will appear from the following ftriking proofs :—In the year 
1793, twenty-one Venetian farlors refided, day and night, 
for five days, with three perfons ill of the plague, who after- 
wards died, and preferved themfelves from infection by often 
rubbing with oil in the manner above directed. The fame 
year three Armenian families, one confifting of thirteen, the 
‘fecond of eleven, and the third of nine perfons, remained 
with fome of their relations illof the plague; and though 
they lay in the fame apartment with them, according to 
their cufiom, and even in the fame bed, and held the fick in 
their arms, none of them were attacked by the difeafe, be- 
caufe, in confequence of my advice, they daily rubbed their 
bodies over with oil. In the year 1794, a healthy poor 
woman attended thirteen perfons ill of the plague ; remained 
W with them day and night, and yet-was preferved from this. 
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