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34 affected, as it is in the fluid; for as an unnatural feverish Heat is raised by the Conflict in the Blood, while the active Principles labour to digest, and exclude from the Mass, the degenerate and corrupt: So in the solid Parts there follows excessive Heat, as well as Pain, while those sound and active Parts strive to concoct, and bring the Matter of the Distemper to Maturity and Suppuration; and when this is compleated, the Heat in the inflamed Member, and the Fever in the Blood, quickly disappear. It is not only the Face that swells and continues so, till the Suppuration is compleated, but wherever the inflammatory Pustules are Confluent, they swell the Part in the fame Manner, and for the same Reason, as they do in the Face: This happens in the Hands, and Feet, and other Members, whenever the Quantity of the Pustules is very great, and their Quality malignant. The Hands begin to rife, when the Swelling in the Face begins to subside, which usually happens on the eleventh Day; for the Pustules in the Body, the Hands, and Feet, coming out about thirty Hours after those of the Face, they are in Proportion, as slow before they reach Maturity. An eminent Physician, that has deserved well of the Profession, by his History of the Small-Pox, and his Method of Cure; though as all human Works are, it is imperfect; observing, that as the Swelling in the Face abated, that in the Hands began; imagined that the Matter which I