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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![[ *9 ] way from any of his patients. I know a lady, at that time 'rery fearful of the Small Pox, whom he advifed to remain in her own houfe, as perfectly fafe, wrhilft a large family of children and fervants were under his Inoculation there. Really, moft of his patients have the difeafe fo very flightly, that one may be eafily inclined to his opini¬ on. But, it is not impoffible, that he might give this advice upon a full convicti¬ on that the lady would not ftay : and it is very probable, that when a perfon comes to his houfe at a time that he is ablent, he may leave directions with his matron, to move any patient that is fuller than com¬ mon out of the way. In the next paragraph. Dr. Glafs has been mifinformed, wdiere he fays thefe Inoculators defpife all precauti- “ ons to avoid a natural infeCtion, and therefore fome of the patients muft take <c it, whether the operation fucceeds or not: <c and yet all have the diftincl Small Pox.’' Precautions may fometimes be negleCted, and in a town where the Small Pox is epi-' demic, confiderable danger of natural in¬ feCtion muft be incurred. However, in my hearing, Mr. Peale once exprefled a good ckal of folicitude on this head. If the natu~ P z ral](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30384722_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
