The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation, fully set forth in a plain and familiar manner / by Daniel Sutton.

Date:
1796
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Credit: The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation, fully set forth in a plain and familiar manner / by Daniel Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Abforpion admitted.—The variolous Fever fal- lacious.—The Blood exonerated fromfundry Im- pitations—Probable Effecls produced by natural Infeclion, on the Accejfion of variolous Effluvia. IT has been a received opinion of the Fa- culty, from Sydenham down to the pre- fent time, that the fmall-pox was generally pro- pagated by the inhaling of infectious air into the lungs, the lacteals whereof conveyed it to the blood, and other circulating fluids ; or elfe in confequencje oj^gnjinqualified abforption by the pores^jf Through thefe channels of convey- ance it was fuppofed that the fluids became in- flamed and corrupted ; and as thefe were more or lefs affected, that the difeafe afterwards was produced on the furface in a greater or lefs de- gree : at all events, however, it was concluded that the blood muft be contaminated, or that the difeafe could not be produced. While I was even in a ftate of pupilage, I had frequently obferved, that the practitioners of the day could feldom or never judge with certainty, in what degree their patients were likely to be affected : thofe whom they efteemed to have the pureft blood would have the moft malignant
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