A practical essay concerning the small pox / By William Douglass.

  • William Douglass
Date:
1730
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Credit: A practical essay concerning the small pox / By William Douglass. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' (9; tinned Trade to the Lrvmt, it has hot taken Koot in England. Thc Small Pox is a Difeafe of a more Rn- gular Nature, it is of a very uncertain Ori¬ ginal, we know of no Countrey where it is a Native or Endemial, that is, where it is the Produce of Seafons, Winds, &c. as is the ague in the Levant. It owes the Conti¬ nuation of its Being to a variolous leaven com¬ municable in all Countries and Seafons, but iome Conftitutions of Years favour its Pro- pagation and Mortality more or lefs; from London Bills of Mortality there died there of the Small Pox 1702, only 311; in the Year 1706 died 711; m the Year 1719 died 3229. There is another Circumjlance very fmgular in its Nature, that it never affeffs a Perfon ofeener than once ; m the Plague fome have died in the 2d, 3d, 4th, &c. Seifure, as Dr. Hodges informs us: It is therefore an Infec- non eflentially different from the Pe/iilential and cannot be the Effeff of feme undent vio- Plague m Egypt, as fome Authors furmife We are beholden to the Arabians or Sa¬ racens, not only for many Drugs and Medi- anes zs the Purging Rhubarb, Manna, Mercu¬ rial Unguents, the Epifpajlick U/e of the Can-- tharides, &c. but alfo for the frrft Accounts we have of feveral Difeafes, as Small Pox Mea£es]. LePra Arabum, Spina Ventofa, Ve- na Me dim, or Guinea Wirrm, See. The Small B Fox
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