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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    [ ^3 ] Of Infection. The manner of communicating this diftemper by inoculation in this - country, has of late been the following': A thread is drawn thro’ a ripe puftule, and well moiftened with the matter : a piece of this thread is infznuated into a fuperficial incifion made in one or both arms, near the part where iffues are ufually fixed; this thread is covered with a plaifter, and there left for a day or two. This is the mod: • ufual way, tho’ others have been pradifed by feveral in the profeffion. At prefent, very different methods are purfued; two of which, that vary in fome refpedls, I have frequently pradtifed, and fhall defcribe; but the following has been | fo invariably fucoefsful as to induce me to give it the preference. The patient to be infedled being in the fame houfe, and, if no objedtion is made to it