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56 If by Means of the Oxymel, the Draught works likewise downwards, then a Clyster will be unnecessary, otherwise after twelve Hours, that Remedy should be administred, to empty and cool the Bowels, and especially if it be considered, that the Patient is likely to continue bound many Days after. The Materials of the Clyster may be Milk and brown coarse Sugar; which I prefer to other Forms, because it is the most cooling, and therefore most refreshing in an inflammatory State of the Blood.

Sometimes about the Time of the Eruption, the Urine is of a dark Coffee-like Colour, which happens either from the high Degree of Putrefaction, as it often falls out in malignant Fevers; or from some grumous extravasted Drops of Blood coagulated in the Parts where they are lodged, which is often a Symptom likewise of the Stone. And sometimes, in this Stage of the Distemper, the Urine becomes bloody, which is one of the most fatal Symptoms that attend it; and it is very seldom, if ever, cured, if it happens in the middle, or later end of the Disease: The Cause of this terrible Symptom is the great Disruption and Solution of many Parts of the Blood, as I have been often obliged to repeat, which being broke into minute Atoms, have lost their Connexion with the Mass, and with one another; and being now only contiguous and not united, they pass easily through the Pores and Meshes of the Strainers, which while