564 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. ' [aNNO 1722. 



vomit; indeed we commonly do these things ahnost of course, whether we find 

 the patient want them or not. And we reckon the sooner we do these things 

 the better. If the fever be too high, in some constitutions, we bleed a little : 

 and finally, to hasten the eruption, we put on a couple of blisters. 



7. On or about the 3d day from the decumbiture, the eruption begins. The 

 number of the pustules is not alike in all, in some they are very few, in others 

 they amount to 100, and even several hundreds ; frequently to more than what 

 the accounts from the Levant say is usual there. 



8. The eruption being made, all illness ceases ; except perhaps a little of the 

 vapours in those that are troubled with them. And there is nothing more to do, 

 but to keep warm, drink proper teas, take gruel, milk pottage, panada bread, 

 butter, and almost any thing equally simple and innocent. Q. Usually the 

 patient sits up every day, and entertains his friends, and ventures upon a glass 

 of wine with them. If he be too intent on hard reading and study, we take 

 him off. 



10. Sometimes, though the patient be on other accounts easy enough, yet 

 he cannot sleep for several nights together. In this case we do not give him 

 anodynes or opiates, because we find, that such as have taken these things iu 

 the small-pox, are generally pestered with miserable biles, after being recovered. 

 So their sleep is let come on of itself, as their strength is coming on. 



11. On the 7th day the pustules usually come to their maturity; and soon 

 after they go off, as those of the small-pox in the distinct sort usually do. 



12. The patient gets abroad quickly, and is most sensibly stronger, and in 

 better health than he was before. The transplantation has been given to women 

 in child-bed, 8 or Q days after their delivery ; and they have got earlier out of 

 their child-bed, and in better circumstances, than ever in their lives. Those 

 that have had ugly ulcers long running on them, have had them healed up by 

 this transplantation. Some very feeble, crazy, consumptive people, on this 

 transplantation, have grown hearty, and got rid of their former maladies. 



13. The sores of the incision seem to dry a little in 3 or 4 days of the feverish 

 preparation for eruption. After this there is a plentiful discharge at them. The 

 discharge may continue a little while after the patient is quite well on other ac- 

 counts ; but the sores will soon enough dry up of themselves; though the later 

 the better, as we think. If they happen to be inflamed, or otherwise trouble- 

 some, we presently treat them as we do any ordinary sores. 



Concerning the Inoculation of the Small-Pox at Halijax in Yorkshire. By Dr. 



Nettleton. N^ 370, p. 35. 



Having often found with grief, how little the assistance of art could avail in 



