The inoculator, or, Suttonian System of inoculation.

  • Daniel Sutton
Date:
1796
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    “ inflamed particles; which being afterwards “ thrown out on the furface of the body, fhe further ripens, and at length totally expels, cc in the form of fmall abfceffes.” Again he fays, “ The virulent matter occafioning this dif- “ cafe, feems to be of an acrimonious and in- “ flammatory nature;—whence the pain, heat, “ rednefs, fwelling, erolion and ulceration;—- “ and alfo to partake of a cauitic and putrefac- <£ tive nature; whence, by its fubtle intefline “ motion, it deftroys the texture and union of “ the parts, and corrupts them. Its effence,” he adds, “ conflfls in a peculiar inflammation of the “ hhod; in which nature is employed for fome <c days, at the beginning, in preparing and u moulding the inflamed particles, for their rea- “ dier expulfion to the external parts'; but when “ the eruption is over, the flefliy parts become the i£ feat of the difeafe” From the foregoing citations, it is pretty clear Sydenham rnufl have been of opinion, that the variolous principle was abforbed immediately in¬ to the circulation of the blood, without waiting for, or receiving any qualification or modifica¬ tion on the furface of the body, towards eff ect- ing a frefh variolous increafe thereafter, prepa¬ id 2 ratory
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