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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    « [ 26 ] Thefe methods of producing the difeafe never once have failed me $ and experience has {efficiently proved, that there is no dan¬ ger from additional infedtion by the natural difeafe at the fame time. I therefore make no fcruple of having the perfon to be ino¬ culated, and the patient from whom the in¬ fection is to be taken, in the fame room ; nor have ever perceived any iil confequences attending it. But I advife the inoculated patients (though perhaps there is noneceffity for that precaution) to be afterwards fepa- rated from places of infection till certain figns of fuccefs appear, when all reftraint is removed, there being no danger from ac¬ cumulation. It feems to be of no confequence whether the infedting matter be taken from the natu¬ ral or inoculated fmall-pox : I have ufed both, and never have been able to difcover the lead difference, either in point of cer¬ tainty of infedtion, the progrefs, or the event: and therefore I take the infedtion from either, as opportunity offers, or at the option of my patients or their friends. Nor