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^ ] “ than my waift. He made me “ take twelve bottles of fmall “ beer, acidulated with oil of Vi- “ triol, every twenty-four hours. “ 1 had of this anomalous kind “ to a very great degree ; yet “ never loft my fenfes one mo- “ ment.” Would the moft zea¬ lous admirer of Sydenham dare to go fuch lengths on the au¬ thority even of his lateft works ? What then can we think of Morton’s after lion; who, after having laid, that the cool me¬ thod of treating the Small Pox had been followed with fatal effects to feveral of Sydenham’s Patients, and with difgrace to the Phyftcian, adds, “ quam “ ob caufam (ut mihi narratum “ eft] in poftremis vitte annis dif-