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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    I ,[ *3* ] puftules, and paffed through the difeafe fafely % but not being reconciled to any food but the bread, it died foon after, languifhingfor want of proper fudenance. Another unfortunate fubjedt was alfo a child at the bread, one of eight children, who with the father and mother were ino¬ culated together. On the third day from the inoculation this child was feized with a fever, which from the fymptoms I fufoedted arofe from Worms. I gave it a grain of calomel 5 a large worm was voided the next day, and the child was feemingly better ; but the fever returned at night, and continued without re- mi ffion in fuch a manner as to be very dan¬ gerous in itfelf, and prevented any didindtion of the eruptive fymptoms: at length a con¬ fluent kind appeared, though the number was not great; the bad fymptoms were not alleviated by the eruption, and the child died early in the difeafe. All thefe cafes happened flnce the intro¬ duction and fir A chapter was wrote 3 and have confirmed my opinion, that it is better, both