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with Succefs. I now ufually continue it thro' the 
whole Courfe of the Difeafe, till, the Scabbing be- 
ing perfected, I find it Time to cleanfe the fit ft 
Paftages; and fometimes I order it in the Intervals 
betwixt Purging for fome time longer, where I find 
the Solids weak, or the Humours thin and acrimo- 
nious. 
When I am called to a Perfon, and ? from the 
Appearance of 'Petechia, purple Spots r Haemorrhages, 
miliary Eruptions, or the like, find that the Texture 
of the Blood is broke, or in Danger, I immediately 
order the Bark . Nor does the Quickncfs of the 
Pulfe deter me from its Ufe ; on the contrary, I 
think it abfolutely neceftary to give it, where the 
Pulfe is quick, if at the fame time it be weak. 
Becaufe, for very obvious Rcafons, I judge that, in 
this Cafe, the Solids are weak, and the Fluids dif- 
pofed to a putrid Acrimony. 
From the Cafes here recited, as well as from many 
others which I have met with, I think nothing more 
effectually or fpeediiy cures a fore Throat in the 
Small-Pox than the Bark ,• nor did I ever find it at 
all check the Spitting in thofe Sorts of Small-Pox 
where that Evacuation is neceftary. 
If, in the firft Stages of the Difeafe, the Bark 
feems to run off by Stool, fo far from being preju- 
dicial, I have commonly found it of Service. For, 
as 'f Hoffman well obferv.es, that a natural Loofenefs 
' often 
F Alvi fluxus licet copiofus non adeo pertimefeendus eft ** fc. ftcuti in 
febribua malignis petechialibus, alvi profluvitsm morbi facit folutionem ; 
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