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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    [ ] In the evening the eruption was increafed *eonfiderably in number; and file was fo much of eafed her complaints, as to bear being removed in a cart to a houfe in the neighbourhood, where I gave her calomel three grains, emetic tartar one eighth of a grain. She had feme reft this night, but the fe¬ ver continued ; and not having had any more ftools, fhe was ordered to take a laxative potion of inf. of fena and manna. She had three ftools before evening, and all her complaints abated. She was very full all over of a very confluent kind. This young woman fat up the greateftpart of feveral days after file was quite blind, by her own choice; and I do not recoiled: ever feeing one with fo large a crop of puftules who went through the difeafe fo eafily ; for file made no complaint but of forenefs, nor took any medicine but a few drops of thebaic tincture at bed-time, towards the crifis.