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Rh unknown to any other age or nation, which occasioned the sudden death of great multitudes. Caius describes it, as it appeared for the last time among us. The treatment of it is perhaps the most interesting, at least affords us the most amusing particulars. It turns upon the sole idea of promoting the sweat, and Caius lays down the strictest rules for avoiding anything that might expose the patient to the least cold, or check this salutary and critical evacuation. On this point he is peremptory. " If two be taken in one bed, let them so continue, although it be to their unquiet- ness ; for fear whereof, and for the more quietness and safety, very good it is, during all the sweating time, that two persons lie not in one bed ." To promote perspiration they are ordered to drink posset ale, made of sweet milk, turned with vinegar, in a quart whereof parsley and sage, of each half one little handfull, hath been sodden, &c.