thither, the Nose is stopped with excrements which there dry, the Patient is troubled with a hoarse Voice, a dry Cough, sore Throat and great difficulty to breath; and then all the parts of the Body are so swelled through the abundance of Pimples, that it appears blown up and monstrous.
There may be two kinds of small Pox, according as it is more or less malignant; the first is that which is accompanied with but a simple emotion of a Fever, only stirred up by an ebullition of Blood and Humours, soon ceasing from the beginning without any evil accident, which ripens, suppu∣rates, and is easily and speedily cured; the Pu∣stules of these do rise full, and the matter is white, smooth and well concocted, and the Infants easily escape it, if they are but well tended.
But the other sort of small Pox, totally malignant, is that which is caused from some contagious and pestilential humour; where the Pustules are flat, brown, obscure or livid, having small black spots in their middle, they come forth but slowly, and no Suppuration follows, or 'tis very bad, sanious, watry, and accompanied with pernitious accidents, as a malignant Feaver, Phrenzy, great difficulty of Breathing, Faintness, Dysenterie, and others which often are mortal, or at least malignant Ul∣cers, foulness of the bone, loss of sight, disfigure∣ment and great deformity of the Face, or lameness of some member, according to the places where these vitious humours are conveyed and retained. These havocks are caused by that which all Women call usually the Master-pock, which is nothing else but many Pimples, by their neerness and bigness joining together, and mixing their matter, which