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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![i . [ 31 ] viewed with a lens, there generally appears a kind of orange-coloured ftain about the iiiciiion, and the furrounding fldn feems to contradl. At this time I ufually give the following medicine at going to bed, either ,mixed with a little of any kind of jelly, or more frequentfy made into a pill: Calomel and compound powder of crabs claws, of each 3 grains, emetic tartar of a grain. A quantity of this medicine fliould be care- fully prepared at once, in order to make the diviiion more exadt. On the fourth or fifth day, upon apply¬ ing the finger, a hardnefs is to be felt by the touch. The patient perceives an itching on the part, which appears flightly inflamed, and under a kind of vefication is feen a little clear fluid, the part refembles a fuperficial burn. About the fixth, moft commonly fome pain and fliffnefs is felt in the axilla; and this is a very pleafing fymptom, as it not only fore¬ tells the near approach of the eruptive fymp- tcms, but is a fign of a favourable pro- 5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3053026x_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
