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entered upon, and the operation performed, without 
any regimen being previoufly enjoined, and often 
after free indulgence. This ra(h inoculator prefcribes 
to adults, from lo to 20 grains of calomel in an 
anodyne bolus over night ; the next morning he exhi- 
bits from 30 to 40 grains of pulv. cornachin. and the 
day following he inoculates in the ufual form. The 
calomel bolus i« prefcribed every other night, and the 
next morning the pulv. cornachin. until four doles of 
each are adminiftered. Every other night, crem, 
tart, is boiled in milk, and the whey drank going 
to-bed ; on the intermediate day, between the fecond 
and third bolus of calomel, the fanguine and plethoric 
are bled, and phlebotomy is repeated the day before 
the eruptive fever is expedfed j during this fever, the 
patient is kept as cool as polfible ; balm tea acidulated 
with the juice of limes, lemons, or tamarinds, is 
freely permitted ; and if the fever runs high, bleed- 
ing is repeated pro re nata» 
This method fucceeds well with the robull, whofe 
fibres are like thofe of Behemoth, and whofe nerves 
are like brafs j but I have known others, who, being 
of a more delicate make, and their blood of a loofe 
texture, fell a facrifice to this method; and others 
whofe conftitution was ruined by fuch an indifcrimi- 
nate and injudicious ufe of mercury, draftic purges, 
and the lancet. 
It may be thought unnecefiary to infert my own 
particular method, more efpecially as I had oppor- 
tunity to inoculate no more than 70 or 80 perfons, 
before the practice of inoculation was wholly inter- 
di<5ted by the legillature of the colony. 
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