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I am of Opinion, that the Blood is from the Beginning full of putrid 
Alcaline Salts. 
If this be the Cafe, I leave it (with Submiflion) to the Learned in 
Phyfic to confider, whether diluting Acids would not be of great Ser- 
vice (efpecially in the Beginning of this Diforder) to raife a Conflia, by 
their mingling with the Alcaline Salts; by which means a Stagnation in 
the Fluids would be, in a great meafure, prevented, until Nature, with 
other feafonable Affiftances, might have time to try her Efforts, and fo 
recover at laft. 
Without this, or fome Help like this, from the Phyfician, the Patient 
often dies in three Days time. : 
Such are the Symptoms, Progrefs, and Conclufion of this malignant 
Diftemper : And though Dr. Warren, in his learned Treatife, is of Opi- 
nion, that it can be cured by Diaphoretics and Sudorifics ; yet, as this 
Difeafe appears in fo many various Shapes, thefe have very often failed. 
The next Difeafe worthy our Notice is the Small-pox ; for we are fel- ae plod 
dom free from it in fome Part of the Ifland or other: However, fince fom the 
Inoculation hath been introduced among us, our Lof by that Diftemper $™2!/Pox- 
’ hath hitherto been very {mall. fe 
It hath been obferved, that this Diftemper proves, in general, very fatal 
to fuch of the Inhabitants of the We/f-Indies as receive the InfeGion in 
England, ox in any other Northern Climate, efpecially if they are taken 
ill foon after their Arrival at it. 
This, I believe, will not be difficult to be accounted for, when we This Dit- 
confider, that the Inhabitants of warm Climates do almoft continually often fata 
ftrongly perfpire, by which means their Pores are more relaxed and net 
dilated ; and confequently, if this Infeétion (as furely it may) can be com-taken ill in 
municated by the Pores, the more open thefe are, the more capable chey ert Cl 
are of receiving a deeper Degree of Infection, than thofe Perfons, who 
every Winter have their external Veffels compreffed and contraéted by 
the cold Air. ; 
However, we are not from hence to conclude, that the Porés of fuch 
are never to be reconciled to cold Climates ; for thofe of the Skin, as well 
as the Juices of the Body, will in time become adapted to the different 
Climates we are in. 
It is remarkable, that the Chicken-pox vifits this Ifland at fet periodi- The Mea- 
cal Times ; for it hath been obferved by Dr. Gamble, a very old and ee 8 Peles 
ingenious Phyfician, as well as a Perfon of undoubted Veracity, that temper. 
the following were its periodical Returns within his Obfervation ; v/z. in 
the Year 1692-3. 1711. 1728. 1746-7. which is at the Diftance of 
about Eighteen Years. 
The Leprofy is another Diftemper, which fome unhappy Petfons are The Lepro- 
affli@ed with ; nor is it lefs furprifing to Strangers, than a Concern to the” 
moft thinking Part of the Inhabitants, that public Care hath not been 
taken to keep the Clean from the Unclean. 
Among 
