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Rh continued all Distinct, through their whole Course, with little or no rising; and at the same Time one of the Arms, on the Outside from the Shoulder almost to the Elbow, was covered with an infinite Number of small Pustules with the least Space imaginable intervening, which soon flowed together, and the Arm swelled in the usual Time, like the Face in the Confluent Sort; and other such Instances I have seen in those of the middle Kind, and no doubt other Physicians have observed the like. I conclude, that all the Pustules in whatsoever part they arise, whether they continue separate, or run into one Surface, rise, grow, ripen, and acquire Suppuration by their own native Heat and Activity, and swell, and are digested independently on one another, and without the Translation of any Matter, from those of one part of the Body to those of another.

But to return to the History of the lowest Degree of the Confluent Kind, where many Patients escape, and many miscarry; Besides the sad Train of Symptoms, which I have described before, that attend this Sort; there is another more grievous, that is sometimes added to this formidable Retinue, that is, scarlet, bluish, or purple Spots, sometimes in a small Number, which often disappear before the Maturation of the Eruptions, and then the Patient sometimes escapes; but if those Spots are numerous and of a deep Colour, as in spotted Fevers, they are usually fatal, and therefore