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brana Schneideriana to difcharge their Contents ; Sy- 
ringing barely deterges the Mouths of the Duttus Sa- 
livares : Either have little certain EfFed further ^ 
whereas the vifcous obftru&ing Matter is lodg’d in 
the inmoft Glands, and even in the Blood itfelf. 
This Method feems peculiarly adapted to fuch an 
Epidemic Small-Pox, as I am now defcribing, in 
which we had all the Indications imaginable of a ve- 
ry vifcid State of Humors. The Blood, when 
drawn, was always exceffively vifcous, efpecially ft 
the State of the Difeafe : Frequently there was little 
or no Salivation j generally it was extremely gluti- 
nous •, fo that the Nurfes were many times obliged to 
pull the Matter out of the Patient’s Mouth with their 
Fingers j and without drinking very plentifully, it 
would foon ceafe. A ‘Diarrhoea very feldom hap- 
pen’d to Children. The Blifters foon dry’d up. I 
heard of no one, during this Conflitution, that made 
bloody Urine. Where that dreadful Symptom hap- 
pens, the Crafts of the Blood feems to be diholv’d, 
(as Lyfier well obferves) •, on the contrary, the recited 
Symptoms argued a too compatt and vifcous c Diathefis± 
of the Blood. 
This State of the Humors, during this Conftitu- 
tion, might, in part, at lead, depend on the extra- 
ordinary Drinefs of the Seafon, and the almoft con- 
flant Northerly and Eafterly Winds, which we had 
in the Months of OBober, November , February and 
March lad. From the Middle of January to the Mid* 
die of April, was a drier Seafon than ever was known 
in this Country, where we have certainly, in gene- 
ral, more continu’d Rain than in mod Places in Eng - 
land , Plymouth being infamous for wet Weather. 
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