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fer moft by it, becaufe they take the leaft care and 
precaution, and their families are much more nu- 
merous. 
The plague, as well as all other epidemical difeafes, 
has it’s rife, progrefs, ftate, and declenfion, when 
it begins to lofe it’s virulence, and many of the fick 
recover. Some years it is felt fporadically all the win- 
ter; and we hear fome accidents in the Phanar, 
among the Greeks, among the Jews, Turks, and 
Armenians; and even among the Franks; for you 
may remember, that Pera was not clean all the win- 
ter 1762. Some years it lodges in the villages upon 
the Bofphorus ; but during the winter it is never of 
any great confequence. 
As to the cure of this difeafe, fome are for bleeding 
plentifully, as Leonardus Botallus and Dodfor Do- 
ver, &c. But in this country, it is reckoned infal- 
lible death to open a vein, and therefore bleeding is 
never ufed ; But I am of opinion that a medium 
between thefe two extremes might prove more to the 
purpofe; for, as it is an inflammatory difeafe, bleeding 
and emetics might be of ufe in the beginning, as 
foon as the patient is taken with the fever, efpecially 
if the fever is very hot and attended with a delirium or 
any violent head-ach; but after there begins a fepa- 
ration of the morbific matter, which the ftrength 
of nature, and the agitation of the fever, drive 
upon the furface of the body in buboes or carbuncles, 
bleeding or purging mud prove very prejudicial ; but 
gentle vomits might be of fervice even then, as they 
might drive out thofe cutaneous eruptions more pow- 
erfully than nature could do it without any help. 
The vomits likewife might prevent the return of the 
morbific 
