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notwithftanding that, I continued the Ufe of the 
Mixture, and this with good Succcfs ; for by it all 
the bad Symptoms were gradually mitigated, and, in 
a few Days, intirely carried off. 
But one of the mod remarkable Inflances that has 
has come to my Knowledge, both of the Efficacy of 
the Bark in this terrible Diftemper, and the whole 
Courfe of the Difeafe is the following, 
A Servant Maid, belonging to one Mr. Buttor y 
of this Town, was feized with the previous Symp- 
toms of the Small-Pox 3 but as the Pain in the Loins 
was exceffive, the Difeafe was unhappily miftaken 
for a Fit of the Gravel; and accordingly Ihe had been 
blooded plentifully, and taken Opiates and fapona- 
ceous Medicines. It was the fecond Day of the 
Eruption when I was firft call'd to her. The Puftules 
were then extremely numerous, frnall, and in Ap- 
pearance like a violent Itch: Her whole Body, Arms, 
and Legs, were cover'd with broad Spots of a deep 
purple Colour, many o f them as large as a Sixpenny- 
Piece ; her Eyes were red, and full of Tears, and her 
Countenance exprefs'd a great Anxiety (a Symptom 
not eafy to be deferibed, but a terrible Prognoftic 
in all acute Difeafes) ; her Throat was fo fore, that 
fhe fwallowed with the utmoft Difficulty; by Fits 
fhe was delirious, and vaftly reftlefs : She had a vio- 
lent Diarrhoea, a prodigious uterine Haemorrhage ; 
and a very quick frnall Pulfe ; in fhort, fhe feem'd 
juft on the Brink of the Grave. 
I gave her th z Bark with Alum, in as large a 
Quantity as fhe could get down. In about n 
Hours her Throat grew better, and fhe fwallowed 
H h h h tolerably 
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