Volume 1

Observations on the introduction to the plan of the Dispensary for General Inoculation. With remarks on a pamphlet, entitled 'An examination of a charge brought against inoculation by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers, by John Watkinson, M. D.' / By the Honble. Baron T. Dimsdale.

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
1778
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Credit: Observations on the introduction to the plan of the Dispensary for General Inoculation. With remarks on a pamphlet, entitled 'An examination of a charge brought against inoculation by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers, by John Watkinson, M. D.' / By the Honble. Baron T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He is not an advocate for Inocula but, in the Letters referred to, he v to fhew, that the practice is unnecei for the following reafons : He maintains, firft, that all dii which produce florid eruptions are oi fame nature, and that it is probable difference happens only from a fmal teration in the atmofphere. 2dly, the fever preceding the Small Pox anc Meafles are fo exactly alike, that the : able phyficians cannot determine be hand whether the lick perfon will have one or the other. 3dly, That what is c; the Chicken Pox is the true Small ] 4thly, That it is untrue to fay, that who has had the Small Pox once is more expofed to it : he thinks, on contrary, that returns of that difeafe in fame perfon are very frequent. 5thly, 1 the firft variolous fever is occafioned 1 bad atmofphere; and that the fuppurai of the puftules which produces the fee fever is an artificial difeafe, occafioned a falfe idea of the difeafe itfelf* and I
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