An essay towards an investigation of the present successful, and most general method of inoculation / By B. Chandler.
- Benjamin Chandler
- Date:
- 1767
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay towards an investigation of the present successful, and most general method of inoculation / By B. Chandler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I [ II ] Dr. Baker is for leaving it to future ex¬ perience, to decide how far preparations of antimony and mercury may be of ufe in the preparatory regimen. For the good effects of calomel, we have the teftimonies of Dr. Andrew of Exeter, and Dr. Gale of Connecticut, and the obfervation of Dr. Mead with regard to the infrequent vifita- tions of the Small Pox in the falivating wards of our public hofpitals, and its never appearing there but in the moft favourable manner. That fbrne, who have prepared with mercury, have not been fatisfied that any real advantage is gained by it, I know from experience. As for conftitutional an¬ tipathies, perhaps they occur but feldom, and I have heard of but one example of any fort, where the patient fuftered at all by the mercurial preparation, beyond the in¬ convenience of a fhort falivation; and this was a young woman, fervant to a farmer, who was indeed pretty highly falivated, in the preparatory courfe ; had the difeafe mo¬ derately as ufual, but was afterwards feized' with flight maniacal complaints, perhaps* owing to her indulging herfelf in animal food and fermented liquors too foon, before t|]e effects of the calomel were gone off r C 2 and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30384722_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
