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be made fufceptible of a large Share of 
that Matter, to the no fmall Relief of the 
Head, Face, and Vitals, upon the Safety 
of which depends the Perfon’s Recovery, 
It is the Thicknefs and Stiffhefs of the 
Skin that makes thefe Diftempers moftly 
dangerous, and often fatal, after Youth is 
over. Now the Skin is not to be fof- 
tened by expulfive Cordials, hot, and fpi- 
rituous Medicines, which rarify the Blood, 
increafe its Velocity, and ferve to turn a 
mild Difeafe into ai> inflammatory and 
fatal one ; or to drain out of the Body, by 
Sweat, the more thin and aqueous Parts 
of the Blood, which fhould prepare the 
Skin for the Reception of the morbific 
Matter, and fill and keep up the Puftles 
on the Skin. It is from this Denfity, Stiff- 
nefs, and Rigidity of the Skin, that Pleu- 
rifies, Peripneumonies, Quinfies, and other 
inflammatory Fevers, are moftly fatal to 
Ditchers, Fifhermen, and others, who are 
much in the Water, and are therefore 
much more obliged to fenfible than infen- 
fible Evacuations ; fure a more rational 
and promifing Remedy cannot be propofed 
than tepid Bathing, with Bleeding, which 
may 
