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70, because Nature now much spent and weakened by her long Labour and Conflict, requires Relief and Assistance from more generous Remedies, to enable her to digest the crude Pustules, and sustain the hard Task of Suppuration. The Cordials then may be such as follow.

Take of Sir Walter Rawleigh's Confection, half a Drachm, of Saffron, Cochineal, and Volatile Salt of Hartshorn, each five Grains; make it into a Bolus with Syrup of Rasberries, to be taken once in six Hours, drinking after it four or five Spoonfuls of the following Julap.

Take of Milk-Water and Black Cherry-Water, each five Ounces, of Treacle-Water and Plague-Water, each an Ounce and an half, of Syrup of Lemons an Ounce and an half; make it into a julap. Or this;

Take of Diascordium half a Drachm, of Saffron four Grains, of Powder of the Flesh of Vepers half a Scruple, of Virginian Snake-root six Grains, of Sal-Prunellæ half a Scruple; make it into a Bolus with the Syrup of Rasberries or Lemons, to be taken as the other.

In the mean Time the cooling and astringent Medicines ought to be interposed for the Reasons above given; such as juice of Lemons, the Spirit of Vitriol, and plentiful Dilution, which is a great Article in this Distemper, as it is in all inflammatory Fevers, ought to be encouraged. If the Face swells gra-