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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![• 1*7] 9 \ l of making it more eafy for phyficians to procure thefe comforts, for their languifh- ing patients : which they have long wifhed * but found all their rhetoric and authority in-* effectual to combat the infuperable prejudices of thofe who generally attend the lick, under the feveral denominations of nurfes, relations, and good women. That this has been the aim of phyficians for fome years will hardly be allowed ; and therefore it may be neceff fary to bring vouchers from the publications of thofe who have recommended this prac¬ tice in their writings. Boerhaave fays* (Aphor. 1399.) “ In prime initio inflam- “ mationis videtur requiri cautela, ne ver- <c gat in fuppurationem, aut curandum ut minima fiat, quod fit, &c. regimine fri- u gidiufculo, maximeadmiffupuri& frigid! “ aeris.” Kirkpatrick obferves, cc That we *£ have little to oppofe to its mo ft virulent u effects, but powerful acids, ftyptics, and *c not only free ventilating air, but perhaps u the ftrongeft potential cold, we can ge- <c nerate and apply,” (Vid. Analyfis of Inoculation, Pag. 82.) The antiphlogiftic, that is the cooling, method is likewife re¬ commended by Mead, Freind, Huxham, Hillary, and I believe every other writer, D Morton](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30384722_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
