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 / By Thomas Dimsdale.

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
1769
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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 / By Thomas Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] the pulfe extremely quick, and all the liquids fhe attempted to fwallow ffill came through the nofe. She could not lie down in bed, and therefore fat up in an eafy chair the greateft part of the night. The puflules, which in the face did not exceed twenty, and very few appeared elfe- where, advanced to maturation kindly, without receiving the leaft check from this adventitious iiinefs. Her fpeech was fo much affeded as fcarce to be underftood. She informed me, however, that fhe was {object to an illnefs of this kind; and had once narrowly efcaped with her life, but had never been fo bad before. I directed twelve ounces of blood to be taken from the arm, and that the fublingual veins fhouid be pricked. But no relief feemed to be derived from any of thefe meafures; and upon infpedting the throat again, the glands, uvula, and fauces were very much inflamed and diftended. The tonfils were then lanced pretty deep, and a good deal of blood be- ihg difcharged, the fwelling of the parts fubfided, fo as to admit her to fwallow, though