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26 The Fever in this Species that accompanied the Eruption of the Pustules, and was necessary for that Purpose, is not reduced and mitigated to that Degree, as it is after the breaking out of the Matter in the Distinct Kind, but continues, tho' with Abatement of Symptoms, in a considerable Degree thro' all the Stages of the Distemper; which confirms what I asserted before, that there is no first and second Fever in the Small-Pox, but it is one and the same from the Beginning to the End, and only varied in the different Stages of the Disease, as it is accompanied with greater or less Symptoms; and in their State of Maturation the Fever is more painful and intense in finishing the Small-Pox, as it happens in the Ripening of all inflammatory Tumours; but therefore must not be called a second, that is, another Disease.

It must be here observ'd that tho' the Confluence of the Pustules in the whole Face or at least the greatest Part of it, diversifies this from the distinct Kind; yet the chief Difference lyes in the intrinsick Nature of it, which consists in its malignant Property; for in the mild Sort there is no Putrefaction or destructive Separation of the Parts of the Blood, but only a Violation and Discomposure of their natural and healthful Order and Disposition, while their Connexion is not ruin'd and destroy'd, but is still preserved, though weakened, and andand [sic] continued under the Animal Oeconomy; but in the Rh