ATTACKS TUli AGED* 



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moutli as they lay on tlie <:;'roii]i(l,) about the 

 10th or l*2t]i day, a sort of convulsive or rpilep- 

 tic fit took place, and afterwards the fluid from 

 tlie moutli was of a bloody appearance, and more 

 yiddd, so as to W ^!^bar^ miiii great 



This was considered the critical period, and 

 was s})ccdily followed bjMleatli, unless the patient 

 soon after began to rally. The great difficulty 

 md danger of this disme, (the conflncoit small- 

 pQXf) mf» Umilm&t <sHefly comes m at ^ 



state or turn of the pox ; for however easily 

 matters may have proceeded till this time, we 

 are now (viz. the 7th, 9tb, or Uth day from the 

 eruption) very often 9U?|»ri^d wifli ^ viay :Sfeo<ji-^ 

 ing Gbmg!$f ^m&hi wpsspimm* Tim mM^ 



Vtt^On and viscid discharge from the mouth 

 are particularly described by Sydenham, and 

 other eminent writers on this disease. 

 It has been remarked, by ^SMt pf ^ 



fatjl 150 adul^ and old people, seldom to chil- 

 dren, and that those who had suffered from 

 it at a former period, as indicated by tlie 

 marks on their skin, escaped it altogether, while 

 there wa?e i&w 4^67 biases of exemption^ Dar* 

 iSmt proceeds m H$ r^fxcty^ m 



which same Huiropeand were attacked by it^ 



