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her Design, but still Part of the malignant Matter is unsubdued and remains in the Blood, she strives to free her self of these putred Remains by expelling them by the Glands of the Guts, whence arises the Looseness, for which the Method of Cure has been set down before; for when she cannot by her utmost Efforts exclude all the poisonous Matter to the Surface of the Body, she labours to effect it by other Strainers, not only those of the Guts, but likewise those of the Mouth and Kidneys; and this leads me to the important Symptom that arises at the latter End of the Space of Time between the Eruption and Maturation, that is, a copious Spitting or Salivation, which I have before mentioned, when I enumerated the Symptoms of this Distemper. After the governing and operative Principles of the Blood have determined to the Skin the greatest Part of the Matter of this Disease, a considerable Portion is left behind, which mingling with the Serum, or watry Part of the Blood, is thrown off by Nature to relieve her Oppression into the Salival Glands, and other Strainers of the Mouth. By this Nature is relieved almost as much as by the Expulsion of the noxious Matter to the Skin, provided the Salivation be thin and copious, and continue several Days. But if the Juices separated by these Strainers are thick at first, and excluded with Labour and Difficulty, and especially if attended with a Hoarsness of the