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long enough to reach to the Ground on the other 
Side, where it mud be hooked into a Ring /, to be 
ferewed into the Floor, for that Purpofc. 
XI. A Letter from Pierce Dodd, M. 2). Fellow 
of the Royal College of Phyficians, London, 
and Fhyjician to St. Bartholomew’s Ho- 
fpical, to the Prefident of the Royal So- 
ciety, concerning a Ferfon who made 
bloody Urine in the Small-pox, and re - 
covered. 
SIR , 
Read June 13. T Aking bloody Water is univer- 
1 V 1 Tally efteemed as terrible a Sym- 
ptom as any that can happen in the Smallpox $ and 
ail who have wrote concerning that Diftemper, do 
unanimoufly agree, that it is a certain Forerunner of 
approaching Death. Dr. Cade , indeed, fays, in his 
Letters to Dr. Freind , concerning Purging in that 
Diflemper, that he has fometimes cured this Sym- 
ptom, by the Help of Camphire* and a copious Quan- 
tity of Acids 5 but then he adds, that this Relief was 
only temporary; and that, to confefs the Truth, he 
never knew any body, that made that fort of Urine, 
who ever furvived the 16th Day from the Eruption : 
And there is nobody whom I know, that has been 
converfant with this Diflemper, but has conftantly 
experienced, fconer or later, the like Fatality in con- 
fequencc of it. I mean, when this fort of Urine has 
pro- 
