kely to do hurt by
_over-heating_ the Blood.

I CANNOT but recommend likewise the Use of _Issues_. The properest Place
for them I take to be the inside of the Thigh a little above the Knee.
Besides, the smoaking _Tobacco_, much applauded by some, since it may be
put in Practice without any great Inconvenience, need not, I think, be
neglected.

BUT since none of these Methods promise any certain Protection; as
_leaving_ the Place infected is the surest _Preservative_, so the next
to it is to avoid, as much as may be, the _near Approach_ to the _Sick_,
or to such as have but _lately recovered_. For the greater Security
herein, it will be adviseable to avoid all _Crouds of People_. Nay, it
should be the Care of the _Magistrate_ to prohibit all unnecessary
_Assemblies_: and likewise to oblige all, who get over the Disease, to
_confine_ themselves for some time, before they appear abroad.

THE Advice to keep at a Distance from the _Sick_, is also to be
understood of the _Dead Bodies_; which should be _buried_ at as great a
Distance from Dwelling-Houses, as may be; put _deep_ in the Earth; and
_covered_ with the exactest Care; but not with _Quick-Lime_ thrown in
with them, as has been the Manner abroad: For I cannot but think that
_This_, by _Fermenting_ with the putrefying Humours of the Carcases, may
give rise to noxious Exhalations from the Ground. They should likewise
be _carried out_ in the _Night_, while they are yet fresh and free from
_Putrefaction_: Because a Carcase not yet beginning to corrupt, if kept
from the Heat of the Day, hardly emits any kind of Steam or Vapour.

AS for those, who must of necessity attend the _Sick_; some farther
Directions should be added for their Use. These may be comprehended in
two short Precepts. _One_ is, not to _swallow their Spittle_ while they
are about the _Sick_, but rather to _spit_ it out: _The other_, not so
much as to _draw in their Breath_, when they are very near them. The
reason for both these appears from what has been said above concerning
the Manner, in which a sound Person receives the Infection. But in case
it be too difficult constantly to comply with these _Cautions_,
_washing_ the _Mouth_ frequently with _Vinegar_, and _holding_ to the
_Nostrils_ a _Sponge_ wet with the same, may in some measure supply
their Place.

THIS is the Sum of what I think most likely to stop the Progress of the
_Disease_ in any Place, where it shall have got Admittance. If some few
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