If there has been much sickness at stomach, a vomiting frequently happens soon after the pill: this the patients should promote by drinking plentifully of some warm diluents; and till the fatigue occasioned by it is over, they certainly ought not to go abroad. By this operation, and the stools which succeed, the feverish and internal heat, the thirst, sickness, and pains, are for the most part considerably abated. The patients commonly complain of being very low and faint after these evacuations; but the most urgent symptoms being alleviated thereby, a disposition to receive nourishment hourly increases. They are then allowed to drink thin mutton or chicken broth, milk pottage, or tea, as the most grateful and refreshing cordial sustenance they can take. Sleep likewise now most commonly comes on spontaneously. But they are permitted to enjoy this refreshment by day upon the bed only; for I always dissuade them from going into it till night. From the foregoing account it appears, that the fever preceding eruption, and the most grievous symptoms accompanying it, are often greatly mitigated by this practice; and I will here add, that the eruption is most certainly retarded, that is, it does not appear so soon after the attack of the disease, nor come out so precipitately when it has begun to appear, as it seemed likely to have done if the natural progress had not been interrupted; an effect, which, however dangerous it may have been thought, may be produced with the utmost safety, and clearly shews the utility of the practice. For it is evident from experience, that the later the eruption shews itself after the beginning of the disease, and the slower it comes out, the more mild and favourable is the subsequent disorder. And I am of opinion, that the eruption is not only retarded and protracted by this method, but likewise that it is in some degree repressed; having had strong reasons to apprehend, in several instances, that the number of pustules, which appeared at first, were by such repression actually diminished; and those that remained seemed larger, and of a milder kind. What has hitherto been said on the subject, relates only to the disease in its eruptive state, which is certainly a very interesting period; but that which follows is not less so, though not always attended to so much as it deserves: for when the eruption is completed, the symptoms abate, the patients seem relieved, and often to such a degree, that both they, and their attendants, flatter themselves with hopes of a happy event, and think it unnecessary to apply for any medical assistance; yet with all these hopeful appearances, the number and kind of the small-pox are frequently such, as would make a judicious practitioner apprehensive of much danger in the subsequent stages.