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80 Patient out of Bed, and diluting Liquors; and the active and cordial Medicines may now be given in greater Proportion to enable Nature to digest the putrid Parts, with which she is still opprest; and this will be the best Means to reduce the inordinate Heat, as the painful Inflammation of a Boil is abated, and the Fire extinguished, when the Matter is fully ripened.

I have now expressed my Sentiments on the Nature of this great Disease, divided it into its several Kinds, or Species, and laid down the Method of its Cure: As I have often tried this Method when alone, through the Series of many Years, and have found it successful above any other Way; so in Conjunction with other Physicians, chiefly with Sir J. Shadwell, his Majesty’s first Physician, a Gentleman of extensive Knowledge and Skill in his Profession, and particularly an able and judicious Practitioner in the Small-Pox, it has been persued with great, and sometimes very surprising Success; while Numbers, who seemed to be in deplorable Circumstances, and sinking under the most threatning Symptoms, have been wonderfully relieved, and rescued from the very Jaws of Death. A