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Symptomatically, the Patients could not by all oar Per- 
fwafions either hinder or procure them. As for much 
Morion, I never advifed my Patients to it, but rather to 
keep in Bed and at Quiet, unlefs when out of Fear they 
would unfeafonably give themfelves up to too much 
Reft, and then it was beft to make them ftir about a 
little 5 that being the way to prevent Melancholy af- 
fe&ing their Minds : For a brisk andeafy Mind is very 
good, but a diffolute, paflionate, fearful and uneafy 
Temper very pernicious. 
As foon as ever we were fatisfied our Patients had the 
Plague, we abfolutely avoided Purging, Vomiting and 
Bleeding 3 for generally thofe to whom they were ad- 
miniftred, though they feemed never fo robuft, did 
not efcape Death 3 as many Pbyficians can teftify, who 
at firft made ufe of them to their Patients. 
A certain Chirurgion, who attended many during this 
Contagion, and was a healthy, ftrong, lufty Man to look 
at, fent for me and defired my Advice. He told me he was 
fomewhat faint and anxious, and had fuch like eafy 
Symptoms, by which I judged him to be in no danger 5 
but as foon as I felt his Pulfe to be very heavy and fee- 
ble, and heard that he had been let Blood, I could m«ke 
no other than a lamentable Prognoftication. And he 
according died the third Day of his Illnefi 3 and after 
bis Death the Spots appeared. Of fuch Inftances I 
could name a great many, but my defign is to be as 
brief as poflible. 
In my Pra&ice I took this Method in curing my Pa- 
tients : Frft to extinguifh the Peftilential Venom : Se- 
condly, to mitigate and aflwage the violent Symptoms 3 
and Thirdly, to preferve as much as poflible the Natural 
Strength. My firft Intention was undertaken with Be - 
zoardiefa and Sudorifichj 3 as Tin&uri, Bezoardica Micha- 
elisy Mixtara /implex, Spiritus digeftivus Schroder . Spirit. 
Bezoard. Bu'Jij, Efientia Theriacalis cum & fine Camph. 
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