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Pox. Some had very fmall, or rather no Tumors 
at all. Twas very rare the Legs and Feet fwelt’d, 
till after the Patients fat up, and then they had much 
Pain in the Parts. 
I have often refle&ed upon it, whether the Succef- 
(ion of the Tumors of the Hands, to that of the Face, 
might not partly depend on the later Inflammation and 
Suppuration of the Puftules of thofe Parts : The Pain 
and Inflammation being a Stimulus determining the Hu- 
mors to the pained Part : And ’tis particularly to be ob- 
ferv’d, that the greateft Pain of the Hands and Arms 
commonly happens at the Time, when the Salivation 
begins to ceafe : So that the Tumor of the Hands may, 
in fome Meafure, prove a Succedaneitm to the Spit- 
ting. It is the common Obfervation, that the Pu- 
ftules of the Arms and Hands inflame and maturate 
a Day or two later than thofe of the Face, and thofe 
of the Legs and Feet lateft, which may alfo be the 
Reafon, that the Tumor of the Legs fucceeds that of 
the Hands. I have been the rather inclin’d to this 
Opinion ^ inafmuch as I have fometimes obferv’d a 
confiderable Swelling of the Hands (the Puftules be- 
ing very painful and inflam’d) and that too in the 
diftind Kind, when there hath been little or none in 
the Face. Generally the more painful a Boil is, the 
greater the Tumor around it; and by confequence, 
the Tumor of a Part is in proportion to the Painful- 
nefs of the Boils, and their Number. 
From this, I would enforce the Ufe of Epifpafticks 
apply’d above the Wrifts, a little before the Time we 
expetf the Tumor of the Hands fhould arife, (efpecial- 
ly when Symptoms are th- earning) as they are J Hmuli 
to be depended on, not only attenuating and deriving 
the Humors to the Parts, but alfo difcharging them, 
and fo proving a convenient Outlet to the morbifick 
H h h Matter, 
