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.