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Rh, and Cordials are forbidden for fear of inflaming the Blood, and agitating the Spirits, and so disposing them to a severe and dangerous Fever, while the Pustules are in ripening: But in this calmer Season, when the violent Symptoms, which usher in the Eruptions, are removed, and those that are concomitant to the Digestion or Suppuration do not yet appear. Nature is to be trusted with doing her own Work, and the Blood is only to be attempered and diluted with cooling Liquors to prevent excessive Heat: But if obstinate Wakefulness should afflict the Patient, an Ounce of Diacodium should be given at Night, and repeated if there be a Demand for it; and if a Looseness happens ten drops of Liquid Laudanum, or a spoonful of Diacodium should be given in any convenient Liquor after every such Evacuation. When the Heads of the Pustules begin to whiten, and fill with the digested Matter, and the Heat grows more intense, then an Ounce of Diacodium, with five Drops of the Spirit of Vitriol, and two Ounces of Barly Cinnamon Water, will make a proper Draught to be administred every Night. The Juices, mentioned before, of Oranges and Lemons should be squeezed into all the Patients Drink, and sometimes Spirit of Vitriol, to the Quantity of five or six Drops should be given in the same Manner interchangeably with those acid Juices. If at the latter End the Patient should be dispirited, and