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the dlfcharge they occafioned, feemed to be more than the 

 patient could bear; but as I have never heard this remark 

 confirmed, I cannot help imagining, that the cafes in which 

 they v^ere tried, were particularly unfavourable, and more 

 remarkably putrid than is ufual ; for in the child, who 

 died on the eighth day, I applied blifters behind the ears, 

 and they had not'the leaft appearance of mortification or 

 gangrene, even after the child's death. And in a cafe of 

 very great danger, which I lately met with, they were cer- 

 tainly of great fervice, and very effed:ually fupplied the 

 place of thofe natural difcharges, by which nature carries 



off this difeafe. 



I would recommend their application early in the difeafe, 

 from the fame principle that they are applied in inflam- 

 matory angina's or pleurifies; to relieve the throat and 

 trachea, and to derive the flow of humours from the inter- 

 nal, to the external parts. 



As the cafe to which I refer was a very remarkable one, 

 in which the difeafe was attended with fome of the worft 

 fymptoms 1 ever faw, and the method I have been advifing 

 was ftrldly purfued, and attended with fuccefs, I cannot 

 help confidcriag this fuccefs to be in fome meafure a proof 

 of the propriety of the treatment, and for that reafon fhaf 



here infert the cafe at large. 



The patient was a child of about two years and a half 



old, who had complained for about a week of a fore throat 

 and hoarfenefs. The day before I faw her flie had fome 

 difficulty of breathing, which on that day was greatly in-. 

 creafed, and exadlly refemblcd the breathing of the children 

 whofe cafes I have before related, when mofl ftrangulated. 



Upon examining her throat I found the tonfils fwelled^ 



inflamed, and covered with floughs of a yellowifli colour. 



V Her breath was not in the leaft off"enfive; her pulfe was 



fmall and fluttering, and her fkin pale and clammy. Two 

 very large blifters were immediately applied, one behind 



each ear, fo as to meet at her throat. 



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She took four grains 



of calomelj with a quarter of a grain of, opium, and was 



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