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particularly in inyfelf, feveral Years fince at Paris • 
when labouring under a violent, inflammatory Fever 
with Delirium , the 9th Day towards Night, I was 
feiz’d with excefiive Pain in my Arms and Hands, 
upon which I bath’d my Hands a long Time in warm 
Water, by Perfuafion of two worthy Gentlemen of 
the Faculty, now living, who were then my Fellow 
Students, and watched by me. In a little Time my 
Hands began to fwell, and in 4 or 5 Hours my Deli- 
rium and Fever went off intirely, tho* my Hands re- 
main’d fwoln and pain’d for fome Time. 
If Nature, therefore, in fome Cafes, take fuch ex- 
traordinary Methods to free herfelf from Difeafes, 
how intent ought we to be in promoting her Opera- 
tions, in a Diftemper, where the Metaflajis of the 
morbific Matter to the Hands and Feet is generally 
regular and falutary. ’Tis, undoubtedly, upon this 
View, that Eaglivi orders Sponges foak’d in a warm 
emollient Decodion, to be apply ’d to the Hands and 
Feet in the Small-Pox : And this, he faith, he hath 
done with great Succefs. I have feen no lefs from 
Blitters maturely apply’d to the Arms and Legs j but 
then I order’d the Patients to drink plentifully of a 
thin Whey, or the like, which takes off, in great Mea- 
fure, the Acrimony of the Cantharides, 
Befo e I conclude this Paragraph, 1 cannot but ob- 
ferve, that the Delirium , attending the Eruption of the 
Small-Pox , is very much alleviated by the Application 
of emollient Cataplafms to the Feet, in Children efpe- 
cially. ’Tis, indeed, what I do commonly of courfe 
apply, when I am confulted at the Beginning of the 
Diftemper, and I think I have had Reafon to imagine, in 
many Ca.es, that it hath been a Means of deriving the 
variolous Matter that Way 3 and, by making the Erup- 
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