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"When I went afterwards to look at his arm (the 
roller being too Hack) I found the pledgit and lint 
were moved to the oppofite fide from the wound : 
the incilion itfelf was but a little difcolour’d, but 
the part, whereon the lint lay, after its removal y 
was inflamed, and full of red pimples. I was afraid, 
that the gentleman would not be affiedted with the dif- 
order ; but we were not more fuccefsful than I ex- 
pected ; for he had the fever, eruptions, &c. at the 
ufual times. 
As he had but thirty odd pu ftules in all, he went 
thro’ the different flages of the diforder without the 
lead threatening fymptom. 
This induced me to try to communicate the dif- 
order, without making any incilion ; that is, by ap- 
plying the infedted lint to the arm, and confining it 
with an adhefive plaifler. The few patients, whom I 
tried this method on, were children, and always with 
fuccefs. The abforbent veflfels, I believe, in young 
l'ubjedts efpecially, will always take in a fuflicient 
quantity of the matter to contaminate the whole 
mafs of the circulating fluids ; and tho’ the denfity of 
the pores, or fcaly infpiffations of the materia per- 
j pirabids , in adults, may, in fome meafure, prevent 
the diforder from being communicated by contadt ; 
yet fridtion, as you, fir, very juftly obferved to me, 
when I mention’d it to you, will eafily remove that 
obflacle ; for by this means we may make the cuticle 
as thin as we pleafe, and the warmth induced by 
fridtion will dilate the mouths of the abforbent vef~ 
Ibis, and draw a moderate flux of juices to the part, 
