The new method of inoculating for the small-pox : delivered in a lecture in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February, 1781 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Benjamin Rush
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MDCCXCII [1792]
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Credit: The new method of inoculating for the small-pox : delivered in a lecture in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February, 1781 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ » ] f r than ordinary, and the patient complains of but flight pains in the back and Head. Here the treatment fhould be widely dif- ferent from that which ha beein nvntion- ed when the fever is of the inflammatory kind. Bleeding )n this cafe is hurtful, and even cool air muft be admitted with caution. The bufinefs of the phyfician in this cafe is to excite a gentle action in the fanguiferous fyftem, in order to pro- duce the degree of fever which is neceifary to the eruption of the pock. For this purpofe he may recommend the ufe of warm drinks, and even o^ a warm bed, with advantage. If the eruption delays beyond the third day, with all the circum- ftances of debility that have been mention- ed, I have frequently ordered my patients to eat a few ounces of animal food, and to drink a glafs or two of wine, with the mofl defirable fuccefs. The effects of this indulgence are moil obvious where the weaknefs of the fever and the delay of the eruption in children, have made it necefTary to allow it to mothers and nurfes. The fmall-pox by inoculation fo fcldomr comes on with the fymptoms of a putrid fever, that little need be faid of the treat- it proper in fuch cafes. I fhall only e, that the cold regimen in the high- iegree, promifes more fuccefs in thefe cafes
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