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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    , - [ i5° ] limbs. No complaint, deferving notice, happened during the progrefs to matura¬ tion. He fat up a part of every day to the eighth from the eruption, when, being blind, and very fore, he kept in bed : they turned on the eleventh, and he recovered perfe&ly. It was remarkable in this cafe, that the inoculated parts never {hewed the leaft figns of infection; nor did a greater number of puftules appear near them than might harve been expedted if nothing had been done; nor is there to bp feen the lead: mark where the inoculation was performed, though in all other inoculated patients who have had the difeafe, even in the flighted: manner, there conftantly remains a fear. It appeared, on enquiry, that this man had been for a confiderable time before in a conftant intercourfe with families in the fmall-pox; and there feems not to be the lead: doubt but his was the natural difeafe* i