Nor has Purging been observed to be more beneficial: Gentle Cathartics have brought on very dangerous Symptoms. Upon procuring a few Stools with Manna, the Redness of the Skin has disappeared, and the Flux to the Throat has been surprisingly increased: If it happens that the Discharge by Stool continues, the Swelling of the Neck commonly grows larger, the _Fauces_ become flaccid, dry, and livid; and the Patient in a few Hours after this expires: So that Purgatives seem to have no better Effects in diminishing the Tumor, and abating the supposed Inflammation, than Bleeding. Nitrous cooling Medicines frequently produce the like Effects; they increase that Faintness which accompanies this Disease, and either dispose the Patient to copious sinking Sweats, or to Stools. Upon the whole, it appears, that all Evacuations which tend to lessen the natural Strength of the Constitution, are in this Disease injurious; and that those Persons in common are in the greatest Danger, if attacked with it, who have been previously indisposed or have had their Strength impair'd by Grief, or any other Accident. Of which it may not perhaps be improper to relate an Instance or two in this Place, as it will also tend to explain the usual Progress of the Symptoms in the worst Cases we meet with. A young Gentlewoman about 26 Years of Age, of a pale lax Habit, but of an active chearful Disposition, had enjoy'd a pretty good Share of Health in common, till a Year or two before her last Illness; about that time she unhappily made use of some external and empirical Application to remove a Redness attended with Pimples, which now-and-then broke out in her Face. She was soon relieved from this Complaint by the Medicine she used; but was quickly after seized with Sickness, Vomiting, Loss of Appetite, and either obstinate Costiveness, or a troublesome Diarrhœa; the _Menses_ were pale, and in small Quantities, and her Health in general greatly impaired. She had scarce recover'd from this weak State, when the Loss of a near Relation brought her almost into the same Circumstances; from which she was slowly recruiting, when she married. Her Sickness, Vomiting, and Loss of Appetite, soon return'd; which she conceal'd as much as possible.