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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    [ »54 ] She was however extremely full all over of a very fmall confluent kind; yet thefe inflamed and maturated in a very favourable manner. From the minuted: obfervation I could make, it feemed to me that by this management the number in the face was lefs than when I firft faw her, confequently that fome puftules were repreffed after they had appeared. CASE XXVII. In the beginning of June 1766, a young woman was taken with a fhivering fit, fuc- ceeded by a fever, and the fymptoms that ufually precede the fmall-pox, in a very violent degree: thefe were attended with fuch general weaknefs, that in a few hours after the feizure fhe was obliged to go to bed, where fire foon became delirious, and afterwards infenfible, her urine pafiing involuntarily; in this condition I firft faw her about forty hours after ftie was taken ill. The heat was ex- cefiive, her pulfe extremely quick, but not ftrong, and a few fmall eruptions appeared on the face, fufficient to afcertain the diftemper. Upon railing her up fhe did not make the leaft