( 19° ) 
I cannot but think the World highly oblig’d to the 
rcoft learned Dr. Friend , and the other noble Orna- 
ments of our Faculty, that have introduc’d, and wrote 
in Favour of, this Method. In the Beginning of my 
Pra&ice, relying upon the Authority of Morton , I 
gave the Cortex to check the fecondary Fever } efpe- 
cially when I found it (as is very frequent) evidently 
intermit ; but I cannot fay with a Succefs any way 
anfwering my Expe&ation : Not but that after due 
Purging, the Bark is very proper to ex inguifh the 
heclicai Difpofition of the Blood, which is frequently 
the Confequence of the Small Pox, to which, if a 
cool Regimen, and Alfes Milk (where no ldiofyncracy 
forbids it) be fubjoin’d, we have done, perhaps, as 
much as lies in the Power of Phyfick. . 
By this Method of early Purging, in the coherent 
and confluent Fox , I have feen feveral refcued from 
the moft imminent Danger, whofe Recovery look’d 
rather like a Refurre&ion. 
This, furely, is the only Way of cleanfing the 
Frim* VU fluff’d with a Load of foetid, acrid Impu- 
rities thrown off by the Glands of the Guts, which 
cannot be fuppos’d to ceafe from their Office, during 
the Courfe of this Diflemper : And forafmuch a^ the 
Pores of the Skin are at this Time very much confli- 
pated by the incrufted Pufluies, ’tis reafonable to be- 
lieve, the Glands of the Guts rather feparate more than 
ufual \ it being an allow’d Maxim in Phyfick, That 
the Leflening one Evacuation is the Encreafe of an- 
other ; efpecially where there is fuch a peculiar Con- 
„ fent, as between the Skin and the Guts. 
If fo the Excrement, being retain’d for a Week, or 
more, by its Weight prefling on the great Artery, 
hinders the Blood from palling freely to the lower 
Parts, and fo deluges the Brain. Hence thofe Deli- 
riums , 
