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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1742 Excerpt: ...Purging is over. Purging and Bleeding very well atter this Disease, must upon no Account be omitted; otherwise the Patient will break out in Boils, and will have very fore and weak Eyes for a considerable time after. Whilst I lived with Dr. Sydenham, I had myself the Small-Pox, and sell ill on Twelfth-Day. In the Beginning I lost Twenty-two Ounces of Blood: He gave me a Vomit; but I find by Experience, Purging much better. I went abroad, by h'.s Direction, till I was blind, and then took to my Bed. I had no Fire allow'd in my Room, my Windows were constantly open, my Bed-Clothes were order'd to belaid no higher than my Waist. He made me take twelve I Bottles Bottles of Small-Beer, acidulated with Spi-? rit of Vitriol, every Tvnty-four Hours. I had of this Anomalous Kind to a very great Degree, yet: never lost my Senses one Moment. This Method will serve very well in the Con!'uent Sort. This you may iollow in the Distinct Small-Pox; but in a more remils Degree. Miss Corbet had as high a Confluent Small-Pox as ever I law, making bloody Water, and the worst Symptoms attending her. Dr. Mead and another Physician left her, saying, She could not live six Hours. I was call'd to her; I desir'd she might instantly be blooded. The Right Honourable the Lady Hotham, her Mother, sent for a Surgeon, who refused to do it, telling my Lady, that Dr. Mead said, That if she was blooded, she would die instantly. I told the Lady, That Colours were all the fame to the Blind: I had a black Man that blooded very well, and sent for him, who perform'd the Operation: She lost a vast Quantity of Blood. Miss Corbet declared afterwards, That upon bleeding she found her Spirits revived, and, as it were, a new Life coming on; and. so it pleased God she ...

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