A practical essay concerning the small pox / By William Douglass.

  • William Douglass
Date:
1730
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    ( *1 ) of an Afh-coloured Cruft or white Skin, &c. 6. To thefe add the Small Pox with interfperfed Petechia brown or red, with Vejicula milia- res, or fmall Blifters full of a limpid or blu- ifli Serum, and with purple Spots from the black to the more diluted Purples, and Hae¬ morrhages, which are more mortal than the Plague itfelf. Some general Directions for the Regimen in the Courfe of the Small Pox. i. Let not Numbers be pent up in one Room, which can icarce contain Air enough for the Maintenance of Health in one Angle Perfon, efpecially if kept from Communica¬ tion with the free external Air; for the Spring of the infpired Air is the continued Caufe of the Circulation in our Bodies. 2. Where the Dejign of Nature is obvious, and her Inten¬ tions right, we ought not to difurb Nature by Medicines. 3. In this or any other acute Di- ftemper, Nature or the Spirits ought not to be difurb'd by Noife or Confabulation. 4. Where Medicines are required, we are not to infifl on any Medicine that continues to be dif agreeable to the Stomach. 5. In this Diftem- per any violent Symptom appearing mufl be immediately obviated; Delays here are dan¬ gerous : But we are to exped m this as in moft other acute Diftempers, that the Symptoms fhouid