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 and Digestion so follow'd into Matter, that, in a little Time, (comparatively to that where other Medicines were used) perfect Health ensued.

However, after all this Success, yet sometimes ill Accidents would happen, thro' the Irregularities of Patients, or else the Carelessness and Mismanagements of their Attendants, altho' the Medicines had been rightly administer'd. For some Persons, upon the using these Remedies, after they had lain in great Sweats for Twenty four Hours, more or less, and thereby had found themselves seemingly well, and free from all Disturbances, or Sense of the Pestilential Venom, yet, by wilfully rising out of their Beds whilst their Sweats continued largely upon them, have given such Checks to Nature, as inferr'd on themselves sudden Death. And, to this, our Author further observes, that all such of that Disease, who did rise out of Bed before the Third Day, or, at least, before their Sweats were wholly ceased, (which were excited by the Use of his Medicines) did hardly ever recover.

Others were destroy'd by Errors of Nurses, and such as attended the Sick, in laying on too many Cloaths, whilst they were in their Sweats; whereby Violence being offer'd to Nature, and the Spirits oppress'd, Rh