Copy 1, Volume 1

The works .... / [John Huxham].

  • John Huxham
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works .... / [John Huxham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JJ4 [1744* are feafonable.—Mufk has a moft amazing Power of driving out the Small - pox thro* the Skin, at the fame Time it does not heat too much. If the Puftules are crude, or al- together watery, I give fome Myrrh, which is very effe6lual in the Maturation of them.—• When however the Blood-veflels are turgid, the Fever runs very high, and every Thing is in an highly inflammatory State, to adminifter Things of this Kind would be a6ting not like a prudent but a mad Phyfician, who devoted his Patients to the Grave :—I wilh that I had never feen any Thing of this Kind. Upon the Whole, therefore, no Medicine whatever is always to be given in this Difeafe, or indeed in any other. AUGUST. Full Moon the 12 th. New Moon the 26th. In the Beginning of Auguji the Weather was very favourable, but, from the 11th home to the End, it was generally rainy, and cold, the Wind changing now and then. In the Be- ginning of the Month great Dews fell. /// Rain i. 3. ii— 14. 15. 16. 17. 19. 22. 23. w Dig. Dec. 25. 26. 27. 29. 31. = 2.074. A Storm the 17th, at Night, S. W. 4.—The 28th, W. S. W. 4x. The 3ifl:, early in the Morning,