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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    [•15 ] greateft heat in fummer, without fuffering any injury or inconvenience from either. When feafons, however, are marked with any peculiar epidemics, of fuch a kind efpecially as may render a mild difeafe more untradlable, it may perhaps be mod pru¬ dent not to inoculate while fuch difeafes are prevalent. An eminent phylician of my acquaintance in London, at that time in coniiderable bufinefs, informed me, that in the year 1756 the fmall-pox were very rife, in the fummer of that year efpecially. That in mod of them the throat'was fo much af- fedted, that about the feventh day from the eruption, when they ought to have taken liquors in abundance, they could not fwal- low a drop. The ptyalifm was in the mean time copious; and the kind being for the mod part confluent, they died on the tenth or eleventh day; and thofe who perifhed of this didemper, and much the majority perifhed, all foffered from this caufe. This indance is only given to diew the neceflity of regarding the general date of epidemics 5 when.