32 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1713. 



Chearful and encouraging discourse, to rouse and comfort the spirits, went a 

 great way in the cure; but there were many on whom this availed nothing, 

 but who remained inconsolable and melancholy, so far, that at last they died. 

 At length this fear got the upper hand so much, that even the physicians them- 

 selves left the town, and fled. The nearest relations would not venture so much 

 as to visit those that were so possessed, or give them any assistance: and we 

 have many instances of parents, who in this case would not visit their own 

 children, though they lived in the same house with them. 



The particular accidents, as far as I could observe in my practice, and from 

 thence prognosticate, are as follow: The buboes were in the beginning of the 

 contagion much more dangerous than afterwards; and those which happened 

 on the left side, were more pernicious than those on the right. Buboes did not 

 always need to be drawn and extracted, nor would they sometimes be drawn or 

 forced outward, but were dispersed by good emollient medicines. It was better 

 not to lay plasters presently on the buboes, but to stay till the 5th day, and then 

 it might be done with safety. 



Carbuncles seated on the nervous* parts proved more dangerous than on 

 the fleshy parts. Where carbuncles came not quickly to separation, the case 

 was dangerous. Carbuncles, without the patient's being particularly sensible of 

 them, without heat and great lassitude, were followed by death the 5th day. 

 They generally after the 5th or Qth day admitted a cure, but required great 

 care, especially that the patient might not take cold. If a bubo happened 

 near a carbuncle, it was a good sign, and less dangerous than if thecarbuncle 

 was alone. Carbuncles near petechiae, or spots, were generally mortal. 



The petechiae, or spots like flea-bites, were mildest of all; some patients 

 even went abroad with them, but seldom with any benefit. Petechiae, that did 

 not break forth before the 5th day, prognosticated death. Such petechias, as are 

 called lenticulares and purpuratae, were at this time all mortal. Occult petechiae 

 brought certain death. Vibices, or plague-stripes, were infallible signs of death. 



As soon as a shivering, with pain in the head and back, bilious vomiting, 

 and great lassitude happened, then was the patient taken with the plague. If 

 the shivering was violent over the whole body, and a trembling in all the limbs, 

 the pulse also weak, then on the 3d day infallibly death ensued. Haemorrhages, 

 or bleeding at the nose, or irregular menstrual fluxes, whether they happened 

 the 1st, 2d, or 5th day, or even the 7th or Qth, were always dangerous and 

 mortal. All evacuations generally, if they came with sudden loss of strength, 

 and an unequal trembling pulse, were not critical, but colliquative, and occa- 



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