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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    •«* [ 12 ] . ration is fo fhort, that the danger of their receiving the fmall-pox therein in the natu¬ ral way is very little ; and it is at this time much more eafy to preferve them from it, than when they are left more to themfelves, and may be more in the way of infection. But children above this period may be ino¬ culated more freely; nor does there appear any reafon to exclude healthy adults of any age, perfons of feventy having pafied through this procefs with the utmoft eafe, and with¬ out occafioning the lead: painful apprehen- fion for the event. .. , ' ) In refpect to conftitution, greater li¬ berties may be taken than have heretofore been judged admiffible: perfons afflidled with various chronic complaints^ of fcro- phulous, fcorbutic, and arthritic habits; perfons of unwieldy corpulency, and of intemperate and irregular lives, have all paffed through this difeafe, with as much eafe and fafety as the moft temperate, healthy, and regular. But thofe who la¬ bour under any acute or critical difeafes, or their effedts, are obvioufly unfit and im¬ proper fubjedts. So like wile are thofe where