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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    [ *8 ] patients are to be careful that they do not eat fuch a quantity as to overload their ftomachs, even of this kind of food. Tea, coffee, or chocolate are permitted for break- fail, to thofe who choofe or are accuftomed to them. In this manner they are to proceed about nine or ten days before the operation ; dur¬ ing which period, at nearly equal diftances, they are diredted to take three dofes of the following powder, either made into pills, or mixed with a little fyrup or jelly, at bed¬ time, and a dofe of Glauber’s fait, dif- folved in thin water-gruel, each fucceeding morning. The powder is compofed of eight grains of calomel, the fame quantity of the com¬ pound powder of crabs claws, and one eighth part of a grain of emetic tartar. In- flead of emetic tartar, I have fometimes fubftituted two grains of precipitated ful- phur of antimony. In order to facilitate the clivifion of the dofes, a large quantity is pre¬ pared at once, and great care taken that the mixture is well performed. Tim