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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    ment neceffary,, will be obvious to who are acquainted with the animal (Eco¬ nomy and medical pra&ice. . . . . j The time of menftruation has generally been the guide in refpedt to the inoculation of women ; that the whole of the difeafe might be over within the menftrual period. This I commonly obferve, when I can choofe my time without any inconvenience, ] and inoculate foon after the evacuation ceafes; though I have no reafon to decline performing the operation at any time; as I can produce many examples in which no inconvenience has arifen, nor any difference been obfervable, when this circumftance has been difregarded. Women with child have like wife been inoculated and done well 5 yet fome parti¬ cular emergency fhould be pleaded in ex- cufe for it in their fituation, as it may¬ be attended with fome hazard. I have not inoculated any woman whom I knew to be pregnant; but fome who conceal¬ ed their pregnancy have been inoculated by