A letter to Dr. Freind ; shewing the danger and uncertainty of inoculating the small pox / By W. Wagstaffe.

  • William Wagstaffe
Date:
1722
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Freind ; shewing the danger and uncertainty of inoculating the small pox / By W. Wagstaffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Particles of Blood with Blood, may, in all reafon, be thought more likely to unite, and lefs liable to raife Commotions. Nor will the ‘Precedents we have of in- L. fuling other Liquors into the Blood from * * Fabritius, Dr. Lower. Sir_E. ' i * l Kingy and others, at all encourage this method of Inoculating. On the contrary, their Experiments in¬ form us, that Oil of JFitriol or Mer¬ cury thus injedled, will caufe im¬ mediate Death ; that purging Me¬ dicines fo injeded will Purge; and that Mr. Smith in the Hofpital at Dantzich, infus’d a Preparation of his own, in the flux’d fort of the Small Pox, into two Perfons, one of whom recovered, and the other i , ' * i ! ^ 1* 1 l ■* . * i » * » died. 1 1 The ♦ rr-TTfiV^r -r-Tra?.. 1 fl * Lowthorp’* Abridgment of the Philofophical Tranfa£lions, VoL 3, from pag, 2,283 to pag. 235,
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