and prevent the Plague. ; 26 
iorrid difeafe by anointing herfelf with ail. ‘The fame year 
two perfons attacked by the plague remained ‘ieveral days im 
the fame houfe with the numerous family of M. Natale 
Pezer, a Ragufan; but the family employed oil, as above 
mentioned, and were perfeétly free from mfection. 
In a word, this wonderful: prefervative has fo much  re- 
putation at Smyrna, that almoft all the inhabitants, though 
perfectly found, when the unfortunate infection makes its 
appearance, immediately fecure themfelves againft it by re= 
peated rubbing with oil. 
_ When this operation is ufed as a preventive, it 1s not 
neceflary that it fhould be performed in the fame mznner as 
on thofe infected. As it is net done fer the purpofe of pro- 
mioting peripiration, but merely to prevent the infection 
from penetrating through the pores, it is not requifite that it 
fhould be performed with thé fame {peed as when for curing 
the diforder; nor is it necefary to abftain from flefh and to 
ufe foups ; but it will be preper to ule only fowls er veal for 
ten or twelve days boiled or roaftcd, without any addition of 
feafoning (condimento). In the laft place, it will be necef- 
fary to guard againft fat and indigeftible food, and fach 
liquors as might put in motion or inflame the mals of the 
blood. 
Careful and repeated rubbing of the whole bedy with 
oil prevents the breaking out of new boils, which often 
take place after the oil has been firft ufed. “The oil muft be 
applied as foon as poffible after the infeGion has been com- 
municated: if omitted for four or five days, it will be of no 
effect. Diarrhoea in this difeafe is a fymptom of death, and 
difficult to be cured; but the editor adds, in a note, that 
Father Luigi, by the ufe of oil, was enabled to recover four 
perfons who had been already attacked by it. The abun- 
dant perfpiration produced by the oil not only prevents new 
buboes from breaking out, but ina few days brings thofe 
which have appeared to fuppuration, or makes them vanith 
entirely. 
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