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of the late Tejtilence. * 8 5 .cation removes all Controverfy about their Piefuhiefs. BLISTER-Tlafters were applied to ft* veral Parts j as the Nape of the Neck, within-lide the Arms, the Thigs, and Legs • and by theft the VefTels were wanned, the Juices rendered more fluid, a Stimulus given to the Sluggifhnefs ol" Nature, and Paiia e made fufKciently large, for the Evacuation not only of fuperfiuous Serofities and noxi- ous Rumours, but alfo for the peftilential Poifo :, which by this Artifice feemed to be turned out this Way •, not to fay any Thing of the Revulflon made hereby of Venom from the nobler Parts. FOR this Purpofe, I once ordered a Blifter-Tlafter to be applied within- fide the Thigh, a little below a Buboe in the Groin, but by the Carelefnefs of the Nurfe, it was laid upon the Buboe it felf } which happen- ing to prove fortunate, after obtained in Practice, in Expectation thereby to prevent the morbifick Humour from going back again, and to forward its Suppu ration } but altho' this was of Advantage in fbme Cafes, it was yet much fu fpected by the more cautious Phy- ficians and Surgeons, as for the moft Part it brought