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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    [ ^57 ] CASE XXVIII. A poor man about 3 5 years of age, who had gone through the preparatory courfe, came to my houfe in company with feveral more, in order to be inoculated. As loon as he came into the room, I perceived he was ill; and on enquiring he told me, that about two hours before he had been taken with a fit of the ague, and that his head, back, and loins were in great pain. Feel¬ ing his pulfe, I found a good deal of fever, his ikin was alfo very hot. I knew the fmail-pox was in his neighbourhood; and thence concluded he was feized with this diftemper. I advifed him to keep abroad in the air as much as poffible, and diredted a pill of the kind already mentioned at * night, and a purging draught the following morning. Thefe operated four or five times, and he perfifted in obeying my orders 5 the fever and other complaints were not fo high as to give any great alarm; he had a pretty large number of a diftindt pock, and went through the diftemper very well, 4