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But to return to our Subjed: 
It cannot but be a Satisfaction to a Perfon of your 
Humanity and Goodnefs therefore, to hear of an In- 
ftance in which this frightful Symptom has not been 
attended with its ufual Fatality : It was in the Cafe of 
a young Spark, about 1 5 Years of Age, Son to a Gen- 
tleman of a very confiderable Fortune in J amaica. 
He was taken with a Fever, and great Pain in his 
Head, April 2o:h laft, and had the Small-pox come 
out upon him the Day following, notwithftanding 
which the fame Symptoms hill continued, and no- 
thing almoft would flay upon his Stomach, and his 
Head likewife was very delirious: He was obliged 
therefore to be blooded, and to take a Vomit, and to 
have Blifters applied to his Neck and to his Arms , 
which, together with a proper Quantity of Pulvis e 
Chelis Cancrorum comp, and Nitre , were the firft 
things, that I had an Opportunity of ordering for him. 
The next Day every thing was more quiet, and fo 
again the Third Day from the Eruption; but the 
Small-pox were very numerous all over him, and of 
a little, rank, angry Sort ; as they generally^ are, I 
think, upon the JVeft- India Conftitutions: But this 
young Gentleman had befides over- heated himfelf a 
little before, by performing a Part at the Montain , 
near Eton> where he was a Scholar. 
Things continued in much the fame State the 4th 
Day, but towards the Evening there were a few 
Streaks of Blood mixed with, and fubfiding in his 
Water j which did not much alarm me, becaufe I 
did not know but it might be caufed by the Blifters. 
I had but one Reafon to doubt the contrary, and that 
was, he had had little or no Strangury : But as cer- 
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