A treatise of the small pox. In two parts / By Theophilus Lobb.

  • Theophilus Lobb
Date:
1731
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    they were, with all their Faults, and this I do af fare my Reader, that I am not confciotis of any Faff, or Circum fiance, mijlaken or mifreprefented. § 28. As I have in the ninth Chapter of theen- filing Treatife mention d my preferibing Medicines for People to prepare them for having the Small Pox, Jo I rim apt to think J'ome of tfiy Readers may be willing to know what preparatory Methods I have us'd, and with what Succefs; and therefore, for their Satisfaffion, I jhall give an Account of a few Cafes of this Sort. CAse L % * OdtoBer 23. 1729. my Advice was afk'd for Mr. Benjamin King, aVoiith of about ten Tears old, a Boarder with the Reverend Mr. Greene of MoulfBam. I preferib'd as follows t fc /Ethiopis Mineiraiis, drachmas duas; Fldruni Sulphuris, drachmam unarh; mifee, & fiat Pulvis attenuans, in o£to chartulas asiqua- liter dividendus, quarum capiat unam Vefperi 8c Marie. 1 order d that he Jhould be gently purg'd, when he had taken thefe Powders, and then to have theni repeated, and taken as before (the fame Day I preferib'd feme preparatory Powders for my Ne~ phew John Greene^ defcrib'd Hift. XLIX. § 578.) This Youth receiv'd the Small Pox in the common Way of Infeffioh, about the Middle of the No¬ vember following; the Difeemper having been fame Time in the Family : But he had the Diftindt Sort, with very few Puflules, and as favourable as my Nephew that was inoculated. But whether c his,
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