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All this time they give the fick no medicines, be- 
Tides Venice treacle for the poor, and Tome doles of 
hezoar for fuch as can afford to pay for it; and they 
never can be perfuaded to change their method ; for 
when you gave them Dodlor James’s powder, they 
never tried what effe<ft it might have. 
I am of opinion that all antiphlogiftics fhould be 
ufed before the eruptions ; and all alexipharmics and 
antileptics after them; more particularly camphire, 
and fome dofes of bark always in the remiffions of 
the fever, and blifters ought to be of great ufe in the 
fleepy and ftupid plague, for roufing the animal fpi- 
rits, and for giving them fome motion : but they are 
never ufed here ; and, as they live by cuffom, it is im- 
polffble to prevail upon them to change it. 
As to prefervatives, I think the belt is to remove 
from the infe&ed perfons and houfes, and to keep 
at a proper diffance for many days from them. 
Some are of opinion, that fire preferves from the 
plague, and purges the air; from whom I beg leave 
to differ ; for I have remarked here, that cooks and 
cooks mates, who are always near the fire, fuffer 
more by the plague, than any other fet of people in 
proportion to their number. Befides, the fire enlivens 
and gives energy to the poifonous effluvia lodged 
about them, which otherwife might die and difperfe 
in the open air, if expofed fufficiently to it. Fire 
moreover opens the pores, relaxes the fibres ; and, as 
the hot weather propagates the plague, fire fhould 
do the fame more or lefs ; and for the fame reafon I 
imagine, that all perfumes muff be of very little 
lervice. 
The next beft prefervative I take to be modera- 
tion, and a diet of fuch meats as are of ealy digef- 
tion, 
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