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Great and frequent bleedings made the patients go 
off the fooner. 
There were alfo this year malignant fevers, that 
began with rigors, fix’d pain in the head, pain about 
the heart, the fever in appearance very fmall, yet at- 
tended with delirium, and often with a miliary erup- 
tion. ‘ 
Thofe, who died, had the villous coat of the fto- 
mach fpread over with inflammatory fpots, which 
fwelled its fubflance, and gave it a brownifli purple- 
colour. Thefe fpots were in greatefl number about 
the upper orifice of the flomach. 
The fmall guts had alfo fome of thefe fpots, I 
got drawings to be made of them. 
Sometimes the glands of the mefentery were 
found obflrudted, when the larger inteflines, and* 
other vifcera, were in a found ftate. 
I cured, or rather flopp’d the progrefs of, thefe 
diflempers, by giving, upon the firft coming on of 
the rigors, a cordial and febrifuge electuary 
When the diftemper did not yield to this remedy, 
we had recourfe to fmall bleedings, and gentle phy- 
fic. Such as were feized naturally with a flight flux, 
got well with the help of diluting liquors, made a 
little deterfive, fuch as liraonade ; but fome of them 
lafted forty days, and above. The years 1749, fo, 
and 5 1 , had the like malignant fevers, fome of which 
were accompanied with violent colics in the begin- 
* Kinkina, one ounce; Venice- treacle and rhubarb, of each 
half an ounce ; fait of centaury and wormwood, of each one 
drachm : fyr. of mercurialis, q. f. 
