of the late Teftilence. 15 $ order it likewife to be repeated until the Patient faints. BUT if the Authority of the Anci- ents as well as the Experience of the Modems hath any Weight, and indeed if our own Practice may be regarded, it as highly to be feared, from many In- ftances, that Bleeding in a genuine Pefti- lence is not only to be fufpe&ed, but charged as pernicious •, for we have many times feen the Blood and Life drawn away together * 7 which makes it afconifhing to fee the Pra&ilbrs in fuch Mifchief dare to juftifie the fatal Error what is it that indicates this Evacuation ? Is it intenfe Heat, or any Turgefcency of the Vef- fels? Or is it to give Vent to the pefti- lential Poifon to make its efcape? Cer- tainly nothing to me feems more abfurd *, for if the other Symptoms do not remit with the Fever, the Patient will be plung- ed into the utmoft Hazard:, for how can the Blood and other Juices be depurated, if the febrile Heat is extinguiihed ? Not to fay any thing of a SuppreiTion of fa- lutary Breathings hereby, a Perverfion of the natural Secretions, and Sinking the Spirits. THEY
