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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    [ 5’- ] eruptions come out, and continue doing fa daily, for 4, 5? or even 6 days fucceffively; preceded fometimes hy a flight pain in the head, though more frequently they appear without any new difturbance. Thefe are generally few in number, fhort-lived, and feldom come to maturity. But I have feen four cafes, in each of which, after a cef- fation of complaints, and an appearance of few puflules, the eruptive ftage of the dif- eafe w^as thought to be over; yet in two, or three days a frefli fit of fever has attacks ed the patients, and after a fliort illnefs a quantity pf new^ puflules has broke out, far exceeding the firft number; and thefe remained, and maturated completely. In- flances of this kind may bp found among the cafes annexed. Some of my own patients, and, as I ani credibly informed, of other inoculators in this way, have had confiderable eruptions, of this kind after they returned home; which have probably given occafion for the reports of feveral having had the difeafe again in the natural way after inoculation. But that thefe reports are ill grounded ' will