A compendium of the practice of physick: being the summary of a course of lectures on the various diseases incidental to human bodies .. Together with an account of the principles, or rules of practice in the administration of remedies ... Whereunto is added, a letter concerning the right manner of preparing persons for having the small pox favourably / [Theophilus Lobb].
- Theophilus Lobb
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of the practice of physick: being the summary of a course of lectures on the various diseases incidental to human bodies .. Together with an account of the principles, or rules of practice in the administration of remedies ... Whereunto is added, a letter concerning the right manner of preparing persons for having the small pox favourably / [Theophilus Lobb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![about him, and fuch ufual Offices as are performed for a@fick Perfon...]ij] °% Ck §. 24. I prefcribed for her eight Dofes of Powder, (vid. 1b. §. 591.) which fhe took according to Direc- tion, but would not have them repeated, yet efcaped th: Diftemper, tho’ very many much lefs among the va- riolous Efluvia have catch’d it. §. 25. Dr. Borruaave in his publick Leétures in the Years'1732, and 1733, referred to thefe Hiftories (§. 12. to §. 24.) as Fats, proving that the Smal/-Pox may be cured without producing any Eruption; as I have been affured by an ingenious Phyfician, viz. Dr. Samuet Danie xu, of Yeovil] in Somerfetfrire, who then fiudied Phyfick under that Profeflor, and wrote in Short-hand, what he delivered to his Pupils. §. 26. Dr. Dawietn ina Letter to me dated Vee- will, Dec. 8, 1733, gives the following Account of what Dr. Boerhaave {aid relating to my Book on the Sma//- Pox, viz. | > “* In the Year 1732, Dr. Boerhaave in his Comments on §..1392 of his pra&tical Aphorifms after having faid, “* that the Method he there propofed for the Cure of ~ the Small-Powx, was heretofore univerfally condemned, ** thusproceeded, Fandem in Britanniis ortus eff Vir cla- ** wus, qui feripfit de hoc Marbo, (Variolis.) Dedit ille Exempla multorum fecundum bane Methodum fanatorum, nempe per ZEthiopem Mineralem, &c. gui hoe modo fue- rant tra@ati, quamvis inter egros verfati, tamen non cereal faltem fi fuerant infe&i, Venenum non agebat. ‘ , «Tn the Year 1733, in his Comments on the fame “* Section, he faid, Hie videte Librum in O@avo nuper — in Anglia editum, tot Obfervationibus ditatum : Au€or multa ibi dedit Exempla VARTOLARUM, ut ita dicam, “* fuffocatarum per Ethiopem Mineralem, &c.”’ a §. 27. Tam of the fame Opinion with Dr. Boer- baave (§. 25.) not only from the good Effects of the Medicines related in thofe Hifortes, but alfo from the -Succefs God has been pleafed to give to my Advices in many other Inftances. §. 28. AiruHiops Mrnerat is a principal Ingre= dient in all my Prefcriptions preparatory for the moons : OX .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33024674_0094.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
