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38 therefore I reckoned them among Symptoms of the most dangerous Nature.

The highest Kind of the Small-Pox, are those that appear on the Skin the first Day of the Attack, and the next in Malignancy are those that break out the Day following; the Symptoms peculiar to this dangerous and usually mortal Species, is a violent and unsufferable Pain most commonly in the Back, with grievous Vomiting, by which it imitates a sharp Fit of the Stone, and has sometimes imposed upon the Physician, as well as the Standers by, and made them conclude it was that Distemper: But sometimes this previous acute Pain is felt in the Side, and sometimes in the Limbs. Another discriminating Property in this Case, is the vast Number and minute Size of the Pustules, that are scarcely elevated above the Skin, and being continued and united for the most part, especially on the Breast, form the Appearance of a scarlet Fever, or St. Anthonys Fire, such is their redness and unequal rough Surface, like that of the Seals Skin; and this Sort has often been mistaken by inattentive and undistinguishing Practisers, for the Meazles, the ranker Sort of which are more protuberant, or rise higher than this Kind of Small-Pox; this Profusion and enormous Quantity of Pustules, so small, that their inequality or unevenness is scarce perceptible, overspreading almost the whole Body, especially the Breast, as well as the Face, may at first Sight be nounced