A new method of curing the small-pox; by which that disease ... is rendered as void of danger as when received from inoculation ... With a specimen of miscellaneous observations on medical subjects / From the Latin by a physician [i.e. T. Houlston].

  • Closs, Johann Friedrich, 1735-1787
Date:
1767
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Credit: A new method of curing the small-pox; by which that disease ... is rendered as void of danger as when received from inoculation ... With a specimen of miscellaneous observations on medical subjects / From the Latin by a physician [i.e. T. Houlston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the happier efFedl do I perceive produced by them. For whatever remedy is ot fervicc in a difeafe which is conic to its height, that mull neceflarily be of much more benefit at the beginning. I therefore never wait till the mod: troublefome fymptoms arife, but as foon as I find the flighceft fymptoms of fever, I order blifters to be immediately applied. Some perhaps would think it lafer, to wait a little rill the eruption begins to ap¬ pear : For it frequently happens, that, whilit the Small¬ pox is v^ry rife, children, who have not yet had the difeafe, are affe&d with fymptoms fiiiular to thofe pre¬ ceding the Small-Pox, yet never have any eruption: And that therefore there is feme reafon to fear, lelt the bliller may be unfeafonably applied, and produce fome bad effed: upon the body. This objection I conrefs is fpecious. Nor can I allent that there are any iymptoms in tins, common to no ocher difeafe, and that therefore it may not eafily happen, that the Phyfician, when he fufpeidis the Small-Pox is beginning, may be mif- taken. And this hath fomecimes happened to that refpeCled praditioner of his time, Rosinus Lentilius f^), that children out of order, have had all the fymp¬ toms of the Smali-Pox coming on, when the event nas proved tb.at they arofe from Teething. I own that the fame has liaopened to me more than once. And as Publius h as it; Cuivis pot eft accidere^ ([iicd cuiquam po- teft. Yet flill I would not on that account defer the application of bliffers. Lentilius (c) had applied a biifter to one of his oarients, who was fo far from perceiving any bad efred from it, that he grew every day better. Nor have I ever found bllifers of dif-fer- vice to any of my patients. Nay farther, when I con- fider and reafon upon the difeafes, which counterfeit B ' the (i^) EteoJrom. medico*prjidt. Page 132, 133. 207. Te»]. 44P et png. 470. Lee. tit. p.ig. 470. et pag. 20J. 204.