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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    r >9 ] This quantity is ufually fufficient for a healthy ftrong man; and the dofe muft be leffened for women or children, according to their age and ftrength, as well as for per* fons advanced in years. The firft dofe is commonly ordered at the commencement of the courfe; the fe~ cond, three or four days after; and the third, about the eighth or ninth day; and I chufe to inoculate the day after the laft dofe has been taken. On the days of purging, broths are allowed, and the patients are deftred to abftain from unprepared vegetables. What has hitherto been faid concerning the preparation, muft be confidered as proper only for the young or middle-aged, in a good ftate of health; but among thofe who are deftrous of inoculation are often found ten¬ der, delicate, and weakly women, men of bad ftamina, valetudinarians by conftitution, by illnefs, or intemperance; alfo aged perfons and children ; and for thefe a very different treatment is directed; a milder courfe of medicine, rather of the alterative than pur- D 2 gative