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.

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
1779
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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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ r77 ] €t After which he was feized with a €t difeafe, that I have not the leaft doubt “ was a fever of the putrid kind; but I “ do not think that the puftulary eruptions <c can with propriety be deemed critical, ct as they did not terminate the difeafe : I “ rather efteem them to have been marks (e or tokens of great malignity and anger.” The French tranflation Hands thus. “ Ou les puftules qui ont paru le “ I2me jour de la maladie ont elles ete “ l’evacuation critique d’une fievre pu- tride, ou d’une autre efpece de fievre ?” Reponfe. Ce n’efi; qu’au bout de ce <c terns qu’il a ete attaque d’une maladie, •c que je crois, fans balancer, avoir ete une fc efpece de fievre putride. II ne faut ce- “ pendant pas, felon moi, confiderer les “ puftules de la petite verole, comme une “ crife, parce qu elle ne levepas la maladie; 6C au contraire je les regarde comme les v <c marques d’une grande malignite et d’un “ grand danger, oufe trouve le patient.” N The
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