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].

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
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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    [ *5 ] weather in winter. And it is well known, that many have been inoculated in the depth of winter, and forne during the greateft heat in fummer, without differing any injury or inconvenience from either. When feafons, however, are marked with any peculiar epidemics, of fuch a kind efpecially as may render a mild difeafe more untradfable, it may perhaps be mod; prudent not to inoculate while fuch difeafes are prevalent. An eminent phyfician of my acquaintance in London, at that time in confiderable bufinefs, informed me, that in the year 1756 the fmall-pox were very rife, in the fummer of that year efpecially. That in moft of them the throat was fo much af- fe&ed, that about the feventh day from the eruption, when they ought to have taken liquors in abundance, they could not lwal- low a drop. The ptyalifm was in the mean time copious; and the kind being for the mod; part confluent, they died on the tenth or eleventh day; and thofe who funk under