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doctor didinguifhes between the different flages of the 
didemper, and fays, that as in the beginning, during 
the ebullition, bleeding may be of fome fervice, fo 
when the difeafe is advanced, and efpecially after the 
eruptions, it will prove fatal, as well as purging, or 
any other violent evacuation. 
A moderate diaphorefis ought always to be kept up. 
To the buboes, parotides, &c. they commonly 
apply a roaded fig with fome white fugar powder’d ; 
and this they reckon the bed: fuppurative. 
They do not open the tumors, but leave them to 
break of themfelves. 
They give the fick cold water to drink, and order 
the cool regimen quite thro’ the diftemper. 
Copy of Dr. Mackenzie’ j firft Letter concerning the 
late Plague at Condantinople. 
Conftantinople, July 23, 175 r - 
IT TE have at prefent the mod: violent plague, 
Yy that has been at Condantinople in my 
ic time, by all reports ; for l know nothing of 
<c it, as I live at the mouth of the Black Sea 
i( for fecurity j but, as I am informed, few or 
<c none efcape ; which fliews, that the malignity 
“ is' not yet come to its date. They are all taken 
“ the fame way, with a fhivering, and vomiting, a 
<c violent head-ach, third and fever, of which they 
<c die the third or fourth day, rather in a dupor 
u than a delirium ; and fuch, as have the misfor- 
a tune to be near the infedted perfon, are taken in 
tc feven or eight days, tho’ there are already many 
“ indances to the contrary. I preram e many die 
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