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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    \ t 3« ] cold, as much as he can bear, and to drink cold water, if thirfty; always taking care not to Hand thill, but to walk about mode- rately while abroad. This treatment indeed feems as hard at firfi to the patients, as it mull appear lin¬ gular to the reader; but the effedts are fo falutary, and fo conftaritly confirmed by ex¬ perience, and an eafy progrefs through every ftage of the difeafe depends fo much upon it, that 1 admit of no exception, unlefs the weather be extremely fevere, and the conftitution very delicate. And it is indifputably true, that in the few infiances where the fymptoms of eruption have run very high, the patients dread¬ ing any motion, and fearing the cold as the greateft evil, yet, when under thefe circumftances, I have perfuaded them to rife out of bed, and go out of doors, though led fometimes by two afiiftants, and have allowed .them to drink as much cold water as they chofe, they have not dif¬ fered the lead Snifter accident. On the contrary, after they have been prevailed on, although reludantly^ to comply with thefe directions.