Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768 ... with additional observations on epidemic small-pox / By T. Dimsdale.

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768 ... with additional observations on epidemic small-pox / By T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [2 ] greateft precautions are taken, is fcarcely ever free from it, the infection being con- {tantly renewed by the intercourfe which fubfifts with various parts of the world. The fatality of the difeafe, in an inftance of a moft affeCting nature, feems more immediately to have given rife to the great event which makes the fubject of this trea- tife. ) A young lady, daughter to a nobleman of diftinguifhed quality and fortune, ex- tremely beautiful in her perfon, and not attended them, were ftri€tly ordered not to appear at court, until a proper time was elapfed fufficient to fe- cure them from the danger of conveying the infection. If the difeafe broke out in the family of a poor per= fon, all that belonged to the houfe were confined at homie; a plate was placed on the door to inform paf- “fengers that the fmall-pox was there; a provifion was ‘made by the crown for their fupport; furgeons were — ‘alfo retained and paid by government toattend on them, and give every neceflary affiftance ; and they were them- felves dire€ted not'to intermix with others, in a manner that might endanger the extending of the contagion. lefs