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twelve hours and a half from the Commencement of the former ; 

 or if not prevented by large dofes of the bark. 



No one could do an act more beneficial to fociety, or glorious 

 to himfelf, than by teaching mankind how to inoculate this fa- 

 tal difsafe ; and thus to deprive it of its malignity. Matter 

 might be taken from the ulcers in the throat, which would prob- 

 ably convey the contagion *, or warm water might be put on the 

 eruption, and fcraped off again by the edge of a lancet. Thefe 

 experiments could be attended with no danger, and fhould be 

 tried for the public benefit, and the honour of medical fcience. 



Dr. Harwood, profeflbr of anatomy, at Cambridge, favoured 



me with the following curious cafe of this infection : Mr. N 



had a violent delirium in the fcnrlet fever, with the {kin cracked 

 in many places, exuding an ichorous matter ; he was attended 

 by a poor man who had recently cut his hand with a glafs bottle, 

 and in the ftruggle of confining him to bed his wounded hand 

 was frequently applied to the patient's body. This happened 

 on the Friday night j his hand was inflamed and the arm i well- 

 ed the next day ; pn the Monday following he was feized with 

 the fame fever, and died on the Wednefday morning after. This 

 would feem to (hew, as far as a fmgle cafe can be relied on, that 

 the fcarlet fever may be communicated, like the fmall-pox, by 

 inoculation, and probably with fimilar fuccefs, if the matter be 

 diluted with warm water, ufed in fmall quantity, and by fuper- 

 ficial incifions only, through the cuticle. 



12. Miliaria. Miliary fever. An eruption produced by the 

 warmth, and more particularly by the ftimulus, of the points 

 of the wool in flannel or blankets applied to the (kin, has been 

 frequently obferved ; which, by cool drefs, and bed-clothes with- 

 out flannel, has foon ceafed. See Clafs I. i. 2. 3. This, which 

 may be called miliaria fudatoria> has been confounded with other 

 miliary fevers, and has made the exiftence of the latter doubted. 

 Two kinds of eruptions I have feen formerly attended with fe- 

 ver, but did not fufficiently mark their progrefs, which I con- 

 ceived to be miliary eruptions, one with arterial ftrength, or 

 with fenfitive irritated fever, and the other with arterial debility, 

 or with fenfitive inirritated fever. 



In the former of thefe, or miliaria irritata, the eruptions were 

 diflincl: and larger than the fmall-pox, and the fever was not fub- 

 dued without two or three venefedHons, and repeated cathartics 

 with calomel. 



The latter, or miliaria inirritata, was attended with great ar- 

 terial debility ; and during the courfe of the fever pellucid points 

 appeared within the fkin, particularly on the foft parts of the 

 fingers. And, in one patient, whom I efteemed near her end, 



