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74 and early the next Morning; and so on the eleventh Night, if the Fever and Inquietude require it. On the ninth, tenth, or eleventh Day, if the Fever is high, and the Heat scarce sufferable, a Clyster of Milk and Sugar, should be administred; as it ought to be every other Day from the Eruption, to suppress the Fury of the inflammatory Parts, and prevent the Fever from getting too great a Head; and by that Means, the critical Province on the eleventh Day is best provided for, and the Physician in his Medicines and Method, from the first, is always to have an Eye to the decisive Time, called the Turning of the Small-Pox, that he may preserve the Blood in that Disposition, which will most favour the determining Struggle.

As to Blisters, though before I would not allow the Application of them, for the Reasons there given, yet about this Season, they may in my Opinion be used with Advantage; not as they cause Evacuation, for that is inconsiderable; but as they stimulate the Blood, and agitate the Spirits, and by that Means quicken and assist them in the Labour of Digestion; and so they operate as proper Cordials, doing the same Office by external Application, which others perform, when given inwardly. But it often happens, that the Case is not judged and determined on the eleventh Day at Night; it is frequently as said before, protracted longer to the thirteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, one and twentieth Day, and sometimes, tho’ seldome,