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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![[ 53 ] I t- Consequences of this Method of Inoculation. I Shall now confider the confequ^nces that follow this very cool and repelling me¬ thod, and how far the patient’s future ftate of health may he affeflied by a praflice fo new, and oppolite to all eftabliflied theory. I need not fay how rhuch it has been thought right, in moft or all eruptive complaints, efpecially in the fmall pox, to forward by every gentle means the efforts of nature in producing an eruption; and on the contrary, how dangerous to check it, either by cold air, cold drink, or any confi- derable evacuations; or that the ufe of warm diluents therefore, and the lying in bed, efpecially if the fever and fymptoms run high, or at lead confining to the houfe, have been generally approved and recom¬ mended for the purpofe. But when a prac- adtice fo foreign to this, and almofl: totally different, is inculcated, it is no wonder if mens minds are alarmed, and thofe evils expedted](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3053026x_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
