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40 part of the Blood; and therefore the Small-Pox, as well as malignant Fevers, attended with such a Discharge, is generally incurable. It is true, if this Symptom happens at the Entrance of this Distemper, and that in a moderate Degree, it will sometimes gradually abate before the Time of the Suppuration, and the Patient may recover; and the same may be said of black or dark coloured Urine: This very ill Sort, from which some few however make their Escape, come forth upon the Skin on the second Day; but of those on whom the Pustules appear the same Day, that the Illness begins, I do not believe, as I have said, that any recover.

I have now done with accounting for the several Species of Small-Pox, but I must yet add one Sort, according to the Opinion of some, which is indeed very wonderful; and that is a Kind, which is not accompanied by any Spots, Pustules, or Eruptions whatsoever; when the wise Doctor tells the good People that it is the Small-Pox within, and would have appeared outwardly, if Nature had been strong enough to have thrown out the Matter; but she being defective and unequal to the Task, the Small-Pox without appearing destroys the Patient in a very clandestine Manner. This is certainly very surprising; for here is a Disease without Symptoms, which is somewhat extraordinary: The Doctor fancies it had a great Mind to have been the Small-Pox, but being disappointed of that Intention,