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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![[ =5 ] ^ have purfued as ufual his cool regimen u of toaft and water, air, &c. and fatisfied “ with a fmall eruption, inftead of endea- “ vouring to compleat it, as it is called, he would have abated it, and purged the re- “ mainder away.” Now it appears, by the hiftory of the cafe, that all thefe cordials could not for two days raife any fever; but that her hands and feet were cool, the pupils of her eyes dilated, and her flefli flaccid : and that the eruption, at laft, did not exceed an hundred puftules. Therefore I fhould fuppofe we may conclude, without incur¬ ring the cenfure of partiality, that this lady was very properly treated: the event itfelf fhews it; and to judge from events is the modern way. What could cold air and cold water, unaffifted with more powerful remedies, have done in this cafe ; would ei¬ ther of thefe have warmed the patient fuffi- ciently or have railed her pulfe ? for, lb far from her having too much fever, lire had none at all: and Mr. Sutton himfelf would not wifh to purge away an eruption, which did not exceed an hundred. That Mr. Sut¬ ton’s method feldomer fails in giving the in¬ fection than the old, is furely a miftake: we have often, very often, feen the operatic](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30384722_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
