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my Body. To make ffiort, having broken the Glass , I gave some of tbisborribly stinking Salt to M. Rcstel to Taste, and thenltasted it my scis, and’twas found to have an Acrimonj as great as Aqua Regis.

Hence no wonder that so many are so aöiicted with continual Vomiting ,so that they can keep neither Mcat nor Drink, since thcir Stomach is conti-nually irritated to this Expiilsion by a Poifonous quality so Sharp.

Hence no wonder, if from the Sharpriest of this Vtncm agitating the Hu-mours, and urging the expulsive Faculty to a continual perturbation of eheBclly, a Diarrbaa is often causcd, which follows the Patient to Death.

Hence no wonder, that from this Sharp Matter, soch piercing Paint arefeit in Bubo’s, and such Burnings in Carbtmcks.

Hence no wonder, why the best Remedies (and as it were the Anchors ofSafety) are Sudorificks , allaying the Acrimony, and driving it out throughthe Bores; kor I found thole always which Siveat, were in a hopeful way ofRecovery; but thosc which did not, were almost all taken off. I there-fore ordered Sudorificks to be repeated every 8 Hours, and strengthningCordiah every Hour.

My usual Sudorificks sor the bettet fort were, Species Diamofci, Piambra,Liberantes Pannonica Rubra , Ext raff um contr.ayerva, Lapis Bezoar, Unkor-nu Marinum , (my Specifick Poovdtr) Sal.C.O*. vstät. Succinum 'volat, conchaPeriar. Volatil. Aqu. cord. temp. cum Moscho. Scorz.on. Cardui Bened. Syr.Scordii, Corallor.

For the Meaner fort, Species Cord. temperat. Eldluar. de Ovo, Antimon.Diaphoret. Bezoarticum minerale Joviale cum Aquis Jupradtä. & Syrup.

My Cordials for the Richer fort were, Conseil. Alcherm. de Hyacinth, ma -giß. Verla. Hyacinth. Granator. cum Aquis e toto Citro, Saxon. Sala , &c.

For the Meaner fort, Corallia rubra contusa , Conseil. Alcherm. in comples,cum Aquis tormentil. Cardui bened. &c.

These were in general the Medicines ufed in this Distemper, but withVariety, according as the Age, Temperature, and Condition of the Patientrequired. „ , , .

But becausc no Alexipbarmickis sufficient in this Confagiöit, therefore ground-ing my Judgment upon the Principies of Harvey about the Motion of theHeart, and theCirculaticn of the Blood, and some other of Bartholine and o-thers, I concluded this Peßifercus Vencm , attracted by the Breath or Pores, bythe Ctrculaüon of the Blood, to be carried to the Axillary and Jnguinal Glan-dules, &c. where ifit long stagnares it Concretcs into Bubis, which tend toMatttraticn ; but ifit opens itsclf a way, and passes with the natural Mo-tion of the Blood, and so is carried to the Heart, thtn Death enfues. There-fore notonly for mysclf, but for two other Friends, I made Incifion with aLancet in inguine dextro & Sinistro, and put in a Cetum, to the end, that bythis artificlal way the Venom might find a Passage. This I often triedwith good Succels, great quantity of Matter always voiding that way, butmore notably when I was any way toucht with Peftilential strokes, or alte-rations. By the help ofvhich, 1 kept my sclf in good Health, duringtheContagion which Raged here at Prague in i<S8o.

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Preservaiiv»ag,iinß this Coatagion.

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