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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![.-§. 37. 1 thal think myfelf much obliged to any, who have found Benefit by the Things I have publith- ed, and publifhed witha fincere Aim at the Good of ethers, if they will favour me with an Account of it. . 38. In the zizth Chapter of my Treatife on the Small Pox, (Edit. 2.) I have confidered the produétive Caufe of it;. and fhewed the Probability of curing it, in the febrile State, or firft Period of it, fo as to pre- vent the Eruption of Puftules, and the other fubfequent Periods; and confequently thofe terrible Symptoms, which frequently happen in them, and put an End to Life. vid. Part. I. §. 562, Se. §. 39. Ihave likewife, there propofed Medicines and a Merbod of managing the Sick, by which, I appre- complifhed, #bid. 603, &e. « §. 40. And if the Medicines I recommend fhall be duly given to Perfons intended for Inoculation, and »y fhould afterwards be inoculated, and none of them fall fick of the Smal] Pox by Means of the Inoculation, it will be a Demonftration of it, §. 38. - §. 41. I may add that they who thall be fo preferved - from the Smal? Pox, will have no Reafon to expee it afterwards. 7 3 | 6. 42. The Small Pox, was very rife, and very mor- tal in this City, when I put the foregoing Obfervations ~ {§. 2. to §. 10.) into fome of the News Papers, and t did it from an Apprehenfion that it might be of Servicé to prevent the Ufe of improper preparatory Methods, which may be of ill Confequence to Perfons, when they fhall fall Sick of that Difeafe, whether in the natural Way, or by Inoculation. | §. 43, And to lead Parents into a right Notion of what Sort of Means is like to prove beneficial to their Children in preparing them for Inoculation. §. 44. And for this Reafon this Letter is communi- cated here to the Publick, by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33024674_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
