An essay on the small pox ... To which is subjoin'd ... reflections ... on the modern practice of inoculation. In which the two grand objections ... are examin'd and refuted / [Charles Perry].

  • Perry, Charles, 1698-1780
Date:
1747
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on the small pox ... To which is subjoin'd ... reflections ... on the modern practice of inoculation. In which the two grand objections ... are examin'd and refuted / [Charles Perry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    3/48
    A BRIEF E S S A ON THE SMALL POX. I Have obferved, in what I have heretofore penn’d upon this Subject, that it is a DTeale which is the Produce of every Country and Climate $ and that it is the Lot of almoft every Perfon to have once, who lives to an advanced Age. And further, I Have fhewn that it is not only very noifotne, tedious, and dangerous in its Nature $ but fatal alfo to great Numbers: And confequently it has employ’d the Pens, as well as the PraCtice, of many Phyficians, of different Ages and Countries, in order to ihape and direCt its Cure, in luch Manner as may render it moil fafe, eafy, and effectual. But it is the particular Con- ^deration of the great Ravage and Havock that it has made, for above a Year part, and even at this Time continues to make, in this Town, and cir¬ cumjacent Country, that determin’d me to recol¬ lect what I have heretofore laid upon the SubjeCt, and to add fome new Thoughts and Conjectures to it. The Small Pox is no other than a Fever of the putrid and eruptive Kind, and is placed, as it juffc- ]y deferves, at the Head of that Clafs. But as for its firft Caufe or Origin, (beiides fome other Par¬ ticularities attending it) they will not perhaps, ad- A z mit