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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    [ 2+ ] It, ill the fame room, with one who has the difeafe, a little of the variolous mat¬ ter is taken from the place of infertion, if the fubjedt is under inoculation ; or a puftule, if in the natural way, on the point of a lancet, fo that both fides of the point are moiftened. With this lancet an incifion is made in that part of the arm where iffues are ufually placed, deep enough to pafs through the fcan fie in, and juit to touch the fkin itfelf, and in length as fhort as poffible, not more than one eighth of an inch. The little wound being then flretched open between the finger and thumb of the operator, the incifion is moiftened with the matter, by gently touching it with the fiat fide of the iniedled lancet. This ope¬ ration is generally performed in both arms, and fometimes in two places in one arm, a little diftant from each other. For as I have not obferved any inconvenience from two or three incifions, I feldom truft to one; that neither I nor my patient may be under any doubt about the fuccefs of the