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our aflent till wc are forced to it by farther experience 
and obfervation ; efpecially as we know, that the moft 
careful and fenfible men are frequently miftaken ; 
but that it is very rare, that any thing happens out of 
the ordinary courfe of nature. 
About the middle of May following, her lkin was 
quite clear of puftules, and was become perfectly foft 
and flexible, being capable of being movd, rais’d, 
extended, and of performing all its natural functions. 
This foftnefs and flexibility of the lkin was general, 
except in the forehead and lips ; which, however, 
afterwards recover'd their natural flate. 
But there ftill remains an unufual degree of ten- 
lion in fome of the mufcles which lie immediately 
under the lkin, particularly in thofe of the hand and 
radius ; on which account, a milk diet is prefcrib’d, 
to fupply the blood with a proper matter for filling 
the cells of the adipofe membrane ; which membrane, 
by having fuflain’d a long preflure between the dif- 
eas’d lkin and mufcles, is become depriv’d of its pro- 
per mucilaginous and oily juices, delign’d by nature 
to keep the parts foft and flexible, and to facilitate 
the motion of the mufcles. Now when, by a fit diet, 
the oily and mucilaginous particles lhall again abound 
in the blood, they will, fince the morbid preflure of 
the lkin is remov’d, be depofited in their proper cells, 
and, by that means, it is hop’d, that the affedted muf- 
cles, which every day grow lefs tenfe, will foon be re- 
flior’d to their natural ftate ; and that the cure will be 
as complete, with refpedt to them, as it already is with 
regard to the lkin. 
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