An essay on the small-pox: with regard 1st, to its specifick cause, 2dly, to its true nature and essence, 3dly, to the best methods of curing it. To which is subjoin'd, seasonable reflections and considerations on the modern practice of inoculation. In which the two grand objections to the most rational and salutary institution, are examined and refuted / by Charles Perry.

  • Charles Perry
Date:
1747
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Credit: An essay on the small-pox: with regard 1st, to its specifick cause, 2dly, to its true nature and essence, 3dly, to the best methods of curing it. To which is subjoin'd, seasonable reflections and considerations on the modern practice of inoculation. In which the two grand objections to the most rational and salutary institution, are examined and refuted / by Charles Perry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftri&Iy applicable and pertinent than her And if it fhould appear neceflary at an Time, to force Sweats, (becaufe it is alwa] proper gently to indulge them) it were muc fafer and better to do it by proper Medicine and a copious Ufe of warm diluting Liquor than by a huge Heap of Bed-Clothes an large Fires. The Reafonablenefs and Juftice of th Diftindtion imift, I think, appear plain an obvious to every one: For when gent Sweats are excited by proper Medicine joined with Plenty of warm diluting L quors, the morbific Matter is, at the fan Time, corrected, meliorated, and moll fied,—or elfe digefted, concodted, and putn fied and fo is adapted and prepared to pa off by the Way or Means intended by Nj ture: Whereas when Sweats are ford and rais’d by large Fires, and huge Heaps < Bed Clothes, — the Blood and Humours wi be violently heated and agitated, withot any other Change being wrought upon then and hence Deliriums, Frenzies, Subfultus’ Petechias or Purples, bloody Urine, and oth< Hemorrhages, mayarjfe* But as foi' the Method diredted abov< which will, I flatter myfelf, be found ver proper and good for all Degrees uf the diftind Sort of Pock, — fo I apprehend it will b found good and ufeful in the confluent Sort.