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morbific matter into the blood, which frequently 
happens, and the buboes, &c. difappear, and the pa- 
tient infallibly dies in a very fhort time. As the pef- 
tilential fever has many remiffions, I am of opinion, 
that the ufe of the bark in the remiffions might be 
of great fervice; as it proved anno 1752, when the 
French ambaftador’s fervant was faved at Buiukdere, 
by means of fome bark and ipecacuana, which I fent 
with directions to Padre Jofeppej and he was the 
only perfon, that recovered of all the gang, who were 
then taken ill in our village. 
The pradtice in the hofpital is after this manner: 
when any perfon is fufpeCted, they give him a large 
dofe of brandy with a dram of Venice treacle j and 
afterwards they cover him very well that he may 
fweat: for the firft three days, he eats nothing but 
vermicelli boil’d in water, with a little lemon juice. 
On the fourth day they give him rice and water ; 
which diet they obferve ftriCtly till the 15th or 20th 
day, when they begin to allow him very thin chicken 
broth, commonly called brodo longo, and they give 
him from firft to laft nothing but warm water to 
drink. 
They apply firft to the buboes and parotides a 
cataplafm of mallows and hog’s lard, to advance 
maturation j and, after they are ripe and open, they 
drefs them with bafilicon ointment. 
They apply caimack and fugar to the carbuncles 
for fome days to cool them ; and when they begin 
to feparate, they apply a digeftive of Chio turpentine 
with the yolk of an egg. They apply nothing to 
the blains and petechial Ipots, which appear and dif- 
appear again upon any part of the body every three or 
four days. 
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