CASE XXVIII.
A poor man about 35 years of age, who had gone through the preparatory course, came to my house in company with several more, in order to be inoculated. As soon as he came into the room, I perceived he was ill, and on inquiring he told me, that about two hours before he had been taken with a fit of the ague, and that his head, back, and loins were in great pain. Feeling his pulse, I found a good deal of fever, his skin was also very hot. I knew the small-pox was in his neighbourhood; and thence concluded he was seized with this distemper. I advised him to keep abroad in the air as much as possible, and directed a pill of the kind already mentioned at night, and a purging draught the following morning.
These operated four or five times, and he persisted in obeying my orders; the fever and other complaints were not so high as to give any great alarm; he had a pretty large number of a distinct pock, and went through the distemper very well.