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Jan. 15th. Cough and other complaints in a great 
meafure removed : pulfe 65 in a minute. 
From this time her cough gave her little trouble 
but on the 1 8th fhe complained of a pain in the 
epigajtriuni) with flcknefs at ftomach, want of ape-- 
tite, and a giddinefs in her head, which were cordi- 
derably relieved by a vomit, infufum amarum , and : 
ftomachie purges ; and were almoft wholly cured 
by the return of her menfes on the 5th of February, 
after an interval of eight weeks. 
V. A girl 2 1 months old v who had' (December 
1756) a great load of the fmall-pox, and not of a good 1 
kind, with a cough and obflrudcd breathing, was, 
on the feventh day from the eruption, bliffered on 
the back; by which the pulfe was ieflened from 200-- 
to i 56 flrokes in a minute. Next day her legs were 
alfo bliffered, and the pulfe thereby fell to 156. But 
the child’s lungs being much oppreffed, and her 
throat being fo full of puftules that fhe could fcarce 
fwallow any thing, fhe died towards the end of the 
ninth day. 
I could add feveral other cafes of the remarkable 
eflfeds of bliffers in leffening the quicknefs of the 
pulfe in coughs attended with fever, pain in the lide, 
and pituitous infardion of the lungs : but thofe above 
may be lufficient to put this matter out of doubt, as 
well as to remove any prejudice, that may flill re- 
main againfl the free ufe of fo efficacious a remedy. 
In a true peripneumony, efpecially where the in- 
flammation is great, repeated bleeding is the princi- 
pal remedy, and bliflers early applied are not fo 
proper. 
