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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    [ 38] lie here exprefleth himfelf with greater warmth and vehemence again/! the prepofterous method of forcing out the eruption. Nay he defyeth his Adverfaries to produce one inftance of a Pa¬ tient, who dyed, becaufe Na¬ ture had not power to throw out the eruption, uniefs only when obflrudted by Cordials. Like- wife he here goeth fo far, as to attribute two moft formidable fymptons, viz. bloody urine, and purple fpots, to the premature confinement of the Sick in bed. He adds that even the nature of the difeafe is changed by an hot regimen; and that, by fuch means, the Small-Pox is apt to turn out confluent, which other- wife would have been diflindt.