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V. A fliort Account of the Anomalous Epide- 
mic Small-Pox, beginning at Plymouth in 
Auguft 1724, and continuing to the Month of 
June 1725. ©jy the Learned and Ingenious 
Dr. Huxham, (phyjician at Plymouth. 
T H E Small-Vox were preceded by the ufual 
Symptoms of that Diftemper ; but the Pains of 
the Limbs, and Back, were generally more fevere 
than common, as were likewife the Naufea and Vo- 
miting. Abundance were feized with violent Colick 
Pains, which would leave them upon the Eruption, 
or after a Clyfter or two, with a gentle Anodyne : 
The Stools were commonly bilious. 
It fometimes happen’d, that the Symptoms would 
not feem very fevere before, and at the Eruption 5 and 
yet the Pox would prove very confluent and fatal at 
the State, 
The Pujlules were very fmall, and did not regular- 
ly fill } but, in a Day or two after the Eruption, would 
fiat and be deprefs’d in the Middle. I obferv’d this 
even in the diftinft Kind. In fome Perfons they 
appeared in lefs than 24 Hours from the Seizure: 
When they broke out fo very foon, they were al- 
ways of the Flux Kind, as is commonly obferved. The 
Eruption was attended with prodigious Sneezing, 
efpecially in Children. I faw one * Child about 
five Years old, that fneezed inceflantly for more than 
30 Hours, nor could it be allay’d, but by Anodynes. 
This Child had the Confluent Pox , and dy’d the 13th 
Day. In fome, at, and after the Appearance of the 
* Mr, Cockeyes Child. 
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