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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    t 14* ] all: than within, fo that as foon as he was d little refted he came out by choice. The pain in his loins frill remained very grievous, but his head was much eafier; and his back and loins became lefs painful towards even- ing. I allowed him to go to bed about fe- ven 5 but being defirous of obferving the full effect of this kind of treatment, I ordered no medicine. 25th. Had but little reft, and his com¬ plaints nearly the fame as when he went to bed. His puife was now raifed, and more full than in the evening, and the degree of heat greater than over night, A few fmall puftules were now begin¬ ning to ftiew themfelves on his face; I directed a purging draught of infufion of fena and manna, quickened with jalap $ advifed him to get out of bed, and venture again into the air. This he did : by two o’clock the purge had worked thrice, and he was freer from the pain in his back and loins: more puftules now appeared in the face, but fcarce any on the limbs. He had hitherto taken nothing: fince his firft feizure, but tea with milk, fage and baum tea, loath-