An inquiry into the merits of a method of inoculating the small-pox, which is now practised in several counties of England / By George Baker.

  • Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet
Date:
MDCCLXVI. [1766]
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Credit: An inquiry into the merits of a method of inoculating the small-pox, which is now practised in several counties of England / By George Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *4 ] to their age. Then, if the erup^ tion be final], he allows them to eat a little boiled mutton, and toaft and butter, and to drink fmall beer. But, in cafe of a large eruption, he gives them, on the third day after their having taken the firft dofe, another dofe of the fame fait, and confines them to the diet ordered during the preparation. Imagining this not to be the common practice, my Friend a iked why purging phyfic was given fo early. The: anfwer was, that this was done in order to carry off the matter which might appear afterwards in boils, &c. From April 20, to May 20, between forty and fifty People were inoculated in one houfe*