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, M.D.

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
MDCCLXVII
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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, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • [ . lo ] to all the hazards of dentition, fevers, fluxes, convulfions, and other accidents, fufticiently difficult in themfelves to manage in fuch tender fubjedts, infomuch that fcarce two in three of all that are born live to be two years old, as is demonftrable from the Bills of Mortality. Befides convulfive paroxyfms often .ac¬ company the variolous eruptive fever in children; and tho’ generally looked upon in no unfavourable light, as often preceding a diftindl kind of fmall-pox, yet they are at all times attended with fome degree of dangers nay, many, it is well known, have expired under them; while others, who have flruggled through with great 'difficulty, have been fo debilitated, and their faculties fo impaired, that theeffedls have been perceptible during the remain¬ ing part of their lives. And even admitting the eruption to be favourable, and not attended with any fuch alarm, yet fhould a larger number of puflules than ufual appear, or any untowardfymptom happen, and require medical help, the un- . . happy