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I very rarely faw Occafion for any Medicines in 
the courfe of the Diftemper, only fbmetimes when 
the Symptoms ran very high, 1 gave a gentle Ano- 
dyne, to be repeated as Occafion ftiould require, and 
once or twice I thought it neceflary to blifter, and 
to ufe fuch Medicines as are found to be mod fervice- 
able in the Small Pox of the natural fort. After the 
Pudules are gone away, they have always been purged 
twice or thrice, and fometimes let Blood, vvhich is 
all that has been ufually done. But tho’ the] Pradice 
may feem to be very eafy, yet it is an Affair of fuch 
a Nature as to require the utmod Care, and I pre- 
fume it will never be undertaken without the Advice 
of Phyficians to dired a proper Method of Prepara- 
tion before the Infition is made, as well as a jud Re- 
gimen afterwards ; to watch every Symptom, and lend 
Nature all proper affidance, when ever it fliall berequi- 
fite. Where this is done, with Gods BlelTing, it will 
feldom fail of being attended with happy fuccefs. 
It has happen’d in one Indance or Two, That the 
Symptoms in the Didemper have been worfe than u- 
fual i and Tome few, jafter the Small Pox were gone 
off, have been fubjed to other indifpofitions. Of all 
which ■ I fhall give you a particular Account. 
The fird that was Inoculated, a Boy about a Year 
and half Old, began to be ill on the Eighth Day, and 
had. a brisk Fever for two Days, then the Pudules 
began to appear, which were but few in Number, and 
rofe” very large. The Child was foon well, and con- 
tinued To for about a Month, when being carryed out 
and ' kept a long Time in the Cold, he fell into a 
Feverifh diforder accompanied with a Cough, and 
’ .. was 
♦ ‘Thomas ‘Thorp* & Son of HaUifax. 
