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tended with hemcrrhages, unlefs the patient 
be plethoric, and the hemorrhages produced 
by an injudicious intempefHve ufe of hot 
alexipharmic medicines *. 
IV. Bleeding in the fmall-pox will not be attended 
with fuccefs, when it would not be of ad- 
vantage in the fame fpecies of fever in any 
other difeafe. 
V. Mercurials alone are not to be relied on, in 
order to leiTen the number of pudules, but 
mud be prejudicial, when the blood is ferous, 
its texture weak, or the diffolution of its 
condituent component parts compleat. 
A Summary of the feveral Methods ufed by the mod 
reputable Inoculators in America. 
1 Method. The fubjeds for inoculation are di- 
rected to a light fmooth diet for 14 days preceding 
the operation. All flilt food, fpirituous liquors, 
butter, oil, &c. are interdiCled. 
Calomel, ppt. 2 parts, fulph. aurat. antimon. i 
part, and with a drong folution of g. arab. 
f. pil. 
Stib. nitrat. cremor. tart. fal. polychred. do. fulph. 
p. a. m. f. pulv. refi igerans 3 30 or 40 grains to 
adults. 
* More have died in America, in the mcafles and fman-pex, 
by fnake-root and liiffron, by the prd'eription of old women, 
both male and female, than by both thde difeafes, where nature 
has been left to hcrfclf. 
P2 pulv. 
