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riums, Coma's, &c t fo frequently threatening at this 
Stadium of the Difeafe. Fur: her, can we imagine, 
that the putrid Recrement of the now putrid Blood, 
join d, perhaps, with the Pus of the internal Pox, and 
having alfo the Addition of fome Part of the morbifick 
Matter feparatedby the Glands of the Fauces , which 
is accidentally fwallowed, raiift not be greatly hurtful, 
by remaining in the Inteifines ? where growing more 
and more acrimonious, (as is the Nature even of our 
mold balfamic Juices, when they are extra Aream Cir- 
culations, and expos’d to the conftant Heat of the Bo- 
dy) it contaminates the Chyle, or Liquors, that are 
drunk, is re-abforb’d into the Mafs of Blood, and be- 
comes a Pabulum to the very Fever, which Na- 
ture endeavours, even this Way, partly, at lead, to* 
throw off. 
And, in very Deed, what horribly ofFenfive, foe- 
tid, large Stools do we obferve in this Diftemper on 
the Ufe of Clyfters, and more efpecially after a Pur- 
gative? I mean at the State, or in the Declination 
So that this very putrid Matter lying long in the 
Guts, and growing more and more fo, becomes at Jaft 
fo virulent, as to corrode them, and brings on that very 
Diarrhoea , or Dyfentery, which, ’tis fo vainly fear’d, 
would arife from a gentle Cathartic } feeing we are 
always eafily able to check its Force (if Need be) 
with an Opiate, &c % 
How often do we find feverifh, he&ic Heats proceed 
from a Cacochymy of the firff Paflages, in Children 
efpecially ? in which Cafe, a little Rhubarb, or a few 
gentle ftomachick Purgers, fhall do more to remove the 
feverifh Difpofition than a Pound of the Cortex. Ir*. 
deed, it’s common enough to find the Bark itfelf purge 
gently upon its firft Adminiftration : And I’m confi- 
dent, in fome Cafes, it hath the better EfFeft. Have 
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