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danger, would not fail to heighten it by spoiling themilk.

Children, who have constitutional diseases, mustnevertheless be inoculated. It will often mend thehabit of body; but ought to be performed at a timewhen they are most healthy. Accidental diseasesshould always be removed before inoculation.

It is generally thought necessary to regulate tldiet for some time before the disease be commun;cated. In children, however, great alteration in dietis seldom necessary, their food being commonly ofthe most simple and wholesome kind, as pap, water-pap, weak broths, bread, light pudding, mild roots,and white meats.

But children who have been accustomed to a hotterdiet, who are of a gross habit, or abound with bad hu-mours, ought to be put on a spare diet before they areinoculated. Their food should be of a light cooling na-ture, and their drink whey, butter-milk, and such like.

We would recommend no other medicinal prepara-tion, but two or three mild purges, which ought to besuited to the age and strength of the patient. The suc-cess of inoculators does not depend on the preparationof their patients, but on their management of themwhile under the disease. Their constant care is to keepthem cool, and their bodies gently open, by whichmeans the fever is kept low, and the eruption greatlylessened. The danger is seldom great when the pus-tules are few, and their number is generally in propor-tion to the fever which precedes and attends the erup-tion. Hence the chief secret of inoculation consists inregulating the eruptive fever, which generally may bekept sufficiently low by the methods above mentioned.

The regimen during the disease is in all respects thesame as under the natural small-pox. The patientmustbe kept cool, his diet should be light, and his drinkweak and diluting, <fcc. Should any badsymptoms ap-pear, which is seldom the case, they must be treatedin the same way as directed for the natural small-pox.Purging is not less necessary after the small-pox by ino-

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