The Grecians have commonly the superstition of opening one in the midde of the forehead, in each arm, and on the breast, to mark the sign of the cross; but this has a very ill effect, all these wounds leaving little scars, and is not done by those that are not superstitious, who choose to have them in the legs, or that part of the arm that is concealed.

The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth.

Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds two days, very seldom three.

They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark; and in eight days' time they are as well as before their illness.

Where they are wounded, there remain running sores during the distemper, which I don't doubt is a great relief to it.