A manual of inoculation for the use of the Faculty and private families pointing out the most approved method of inoculation and conduction patients through the small-pox; extracted from the writings of Dimsdale, Sutton and other eminent practitioners / [George Lipscomb].

  • George Lipscomb
Date:
1806
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Credit: A manual of inoculation for the use of the Faculty and private families pointing out the most approved method of inoculation and conduction patients through the small-pox; extracted from the writings of Dimsdale, Sutton and other eminent practitioners / [George Lipscomb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or mixed with fyrup or jelly, at equal intervals; beginning nine or ten days before” the time appointed for the operation. Another dofe of the -powder was to be exhi¬ bited ' in the evening of the fecond day after Inoculation, and repeated once or twice pre¬ vious to the occurrence of eruptive fymptoms. On the morning following, a laxative draught, compofed of Infufion of Senna, with Manna, and Tinclure of Jalap was dire£fed: particu¬ larly when t;he fymptoms indicated a fevere difeafe. • ^ Mr. Sutton laidafide the preparative mode; exhibited one of his alterative powders, every night at bed time, beginning on the day of In¬ oculation; and one of the cathartic powders every other morning, beginning on the day next following that of the operation. Sutton’s Alterative Powder, ]^'—Calcis^Antimonii, 3x. ' Calomel, pp. 3viij. ' Antim. Tart. 31]. M. f. Pulvis. Cathartic Powder, —Pulv. Rad. Jalapii recent. Jj. ' —^ Rhabarb JIC M. f. Pul vis. I know of nothing better for the purpofe in¬ tended than the laft; and the articles of which * * it is compofed are to be met with in every ' Country village. - . . '