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Rh assisted Nature, to an ignorant and injudicious Practiser, and much more to the Care and Wisdom of a confident Nurse, often more destructive than the Disease it self; for Nature has many Ways to struggle and shift for Life, would these rash or weak Pretenders to Knowledge stand by, and let her have fair Play.

When any Person is attacked with the Symptoms that usually precede the Small-Pox, viz. a great Heat, a swift and labouring Pulse, Pains in the Back, Vomiting, Sickness, and Head-ach, it is advisable he should be let Blood to ten or twelve Ounces, or more, if the Pulse are strong and the Patient young, and of a vigorous and florid Constitution: a gentle Vomit, and a lenitive Glyster are likewise very proper, if there is Room and Time to administer these Remedies.

If it proves the severest Kind of the Distinct Small-Pox, where, tho' the Pustules continue separate, they are however very numerous, and therefore require great Labour from the active Principles to digest and bring them to Perfection, which must be attended with great Heat, especially when they come to Suppuration, the greatest Danger will be left the Patient should be overset by the prevailing Fever; and therefore all proper Means should be used to guard against it, and for this End the cold Regimen is here to be preferred before Cordials and Alexipharmack Remedies. Rh