Volume 1

Mr. Maitland's account of inoculating the small pox / [Charles Maitland].

  • Charles Maitland
Date:
1722
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Mr. Maitland's account of inoculating the small pox / [Charles Maitland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( i o y to be a little hot and Feverifh. An an¬ cient Apothecary in the Neighbourhood being then call’d, prudently advis’d not to give the Child any Medicine, alluring them there was no Danger, and that the Heat would quickly abate, which accord¬ ingly it did 3 and the Small Pox began next Morning to appear, which was indeed fomc two Days later than ufual, by rea- fon of the uncommon Difcharge of Matter * . at the Incilions from the Beginning. Three learned Phylicians of the College were ad¬ mitted, one after another, to vilit the young Lady they are all Gentlemen of Honour, and will on all Gccalions declare,, as they have hitherto done, that they faw Mifs Worthy playing about the Room,, chearful and well, with the Small Pox. rais’d upon her ,* and that in a few* Days after fhe perfectly recover’d of them. Se¬ veral Ladies, and other Perfons of Diftin- dion, vilited alfo this young Patient, and can attefl the Truth of this Fad. I need - not here be more particular, in determining the feveral Periods of this Cafe, they being the very fame with that abovementioned y except only that here the Pultules were not fo many, nor did they ripen fo foon,* ; which may be eafily accounted for, with¬ out having Regard to the Difference of Climates, for there is little or nothing in that, feeing the Circajfians, and others; inhabiting the Banks of the Cafpictn Sea,, a.
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