1 ) 
Thafe Tumors were undoubtedly the Confequence 
of a very vifcid Matter obftrucling thofe Glands, 
which harden’d the Swelling of the Face, hinder’d 
the Salivation, and in fome Meafure, the Circulation 
through the external Carotids , by which Means, 
more Blood being forc’d through the Internal, an In- 
flammation of the Brain, and a Delirium might be 
partly brought on ; and this happening too, when 
the Blood was fraught with acrimonious Matter ab- 
forb’d from the Puftules, render’d the Delirium , at 
that Stadium of the Difeafe, vaftly more to be dread- 
ed than in the A pparatus , when it happen’d almoft 
of courfe. Lnder thefe Circumftances, Bleeding, 
emollient Clyfters, Eccoproticks, plentiful Dilution, 
were abfoluteiy neceflary. 
On this Occafion it may be ask’d whether or no, 
the Salivation being very vifcid and defedive, the Tu- 
mor of the Face hard and tenfe, fome Mercurial 
(as a duly prepar’d Calomel ) might not be given with 
Advantage, even in the S f ate of Maturation ? (1 have 
frequently given Cinnabar to good Purpofe). There 
are fome Instances that would feem to juftify fuch a 
Practice j and I know but one material Objedion to 
it, and that is, that the Weight of the Mercury 
would, by encreafing the Moment of Motion of the 
Blood, augment the Fever*, bur furely we have given 
Calomel after the Incruftation, when the fecondary 
Fever hath fubfifted, without any Manner of ill Con- 
fequence, I might fay, with great Succefs. 
Nothing fo certainly fufeth vifcous tough Humors, 
being join’d with plentiful diluting Liquors, as this, 
and fo prepares them to be difcharg’d by proper Out- 
lets. As to Oxymel Scillit. Syringing, and the like, 
in a defedive Salivation •, the former, indeed, by 
Puking, fometimes irritates the Glands of the Mem - 
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