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the Loins. He went well through the Difeafe by 
the fame Method.- — Neither of thefe two had any 
condary Fever. 
In the Cafes above-recited I trufted to the Bark 
alone j excepting only that I acidulated the Liquors 
with the vitriolic Acid ; but lately I have joined Alum 
with it, and I think to Advantage : For, as the chief 
Efficacy of the Cort . Beruv. feem'd to me to arife 
from its ftyptic and antifeptic Qualities, whereby it 
not only ftrengthens the Solids, but gives a Firmnefs 
alfo to the Blood and Juices, and thereby prevents 
their degenerating into a putrid Sanies , I thought it 
might not unufefully be joined with Alum, a Sait 
of Angular Virtue in the fame Intentions, and which 
is well known to affift the Bark in other Cafes* 
where it is order'd as a Styptic. 
Mr. Higgins , of Tedney in Herefordshire , a young 
Man of about 24 Years of Age, after very violent 
Exercife in hot Weather, was feized with the pre- 
vious Symptoms of the Small-Pox. The Pain in 
his Back particularly was very violent, and his 
Anxiety intolerable. On the third Day of his Illnefs, 
when I firft faw him, his Skin was cover'd with pur- 
ple Spots, many of them as large]: as a filver Peny 3 
and his Pulfe was fmall, and very quick. Notwith- 
(landing this, as he was a fanguine young Man, the 
Weather hot, and the Sicknefs came after violent 
Exercife, I ventur'd to order a fmall Quantity of Blood 
to be taken from his Arm, which I found very ten- 
der and florid 5 and at the fame time I directed for 
him as follows : 
R. 
