The present method of inoculating for the small-pox. To which are added, some experiments, instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox / [Thomas Dimsdale].

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
1768
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Credit: The present method of inoculating for the small-pox. To which are added, some experiments, instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox / [Thomas Dimsdale]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *54 ] She was however extremely full all over of a very fmall confluent kind; yet thefe inflamed and maturated in a very favour¬ able manner. From the minuteft obfer- vation I could make, it feemed to me that by this management the number in the face was lefs than when I firft faw her, confequently that fome puftules were re* prefled after they had appeared. CASE XXVII. In the beginning of June 1766, a young woman was taken with a fhivering fit, fuc- ceeded by a fever, and the fymptoms that ufually precede the fmall-pox, in a very violent degree 5 thefe were attended with fuch general weaknefs, that in a fewhours after the feizure (he was obliged to go to bed, where ihe foon became delirious, and afterwards infenfible, her urine palling involuntarily j in this condition I firft law her about forty hours after file was taken ill. The heat was ex* ceffive, her pulfe extremely quick, but not ftrong, and a few fmall eruptions appeared on; the face, fufficient to afcertain thediftemper* Upon railing her up ihe did not make the leaft: