In this dangerous situation the operation that had administered some relief was repeated, and other parts of the tonsils and fauces, which had not been wounded before, were now lanced pretty deep; a large quantity of blood was discharged, the parts collapsed, and in less than an hour she was able to swallow liquids; after which she got some refreshing sleep, recovered fast, and is now in good health. The pustules, notwithstanding this illness, advanced very kindly to maturation, and turned on the 7th day from the eruption. CASE XXII. A healthy middle-aged man, rather of a corpulent habit, was inoculated, had a slight cold fit (on the 5th day inclusive after the operation) which lasted but a very short time, and was not succeeded by either fever or complaint of any kind. His arms at that time shewed certain signs of the infection having succeeded, which continued advancing to the 9th day, when the inflammations about the incisions appeared considerably spread, and were surrounded with confluent clusters of very small pustules. In other respects he was perfectly well, and felt not the least stiffness or pain in the axilla, or elsewhere; insomuch that he began to be uneasy least he should have no appearance of small-pox. On the 10th several small pimples were to be seen on the forehead, which I should have thought small-pox, if he had not at this time been quite well, brisk, and hearty, without having felt any previous complaint. On the 11th in the morning many more were to be seen on the face, limbs, and body, so that he might be said to be very full. I now examined him again very strictly, and could not find that he had been in the least ill; and on inquiring how he had slept, he answered, Never better; for he went to bed about ten, and did not wake till near seven in the morning. The eruption, on a close inspection, had such an appearance as would have made me pronounce it the small-pox of an unfavourable kind, if it had been preceded or attended by any feverish or other complaints; but I must confess, that even at this time I supposed it was only an inoffensive rash, as the patient was then, and had been, intirely free from any complaint. All this day he continued perfectly well, had walked out of his own accord into the fields, and in the evening asserted that he never had been easier or better in all his life; though, as he confessed to me afterwards, he had been in some company where he smoked his pipe, and drank his share of a quart of ale. Still the pustules remained, and increased in number, though not in size; and nothing but the consideration of his having had none of the complaints which usually precede even the slightest kind of small-pox, kept me in any doubt whether they were the small-pox or not.