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ciples, and so far reduce the vital Heat, as to disable it to discharge the great Office and Duty of Concoction and Exclusion; and therefore in my Judgment, the Gentlemen of the hot Method, and those of the cold, are singly, but half Physicians for the Confluent Small-Pox, and both united and blended together, would make a compleat Practiser: One that consolidates the hot and cold Method, and unites in his Prescriptions cooling, astringent, and diluting Remedies, with warm and generous Cordials, in equal, or different Proportions, as the Relief of Nature requires, that is, as the Pulse are more to be quicken'd, animated, and inspirited; or on the other Hand, to be reduced, and brought to a lower State, which likewise is the Case of malignant Fevers. And having thus laid the Ground-work, I proceed to the Method of Cure in this Disease, which is so dangerous, and often destructive, especially to Persons of higher Rank; and had the Method of Cure, that I shall lay down, been observed, I believe this Fury had not made such Havock, nor have triumphed in such a terrible Manner, with her Spoils and Graves about her, as of late she has done; because I have seen many Patients under the most formidable and threatning Symptoms of the high Confluent Kind, evidently rescued by this compounded, or complex Method, from the very Jaws of Death, as hereafter I shall relate, without any Prejudice, or any Respect