The present method of inoculating for the small-pox. To which are added, some experiments, instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox / [Thomas Dimsdale].

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
Date:
1768
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Credit: The present method of inoculating for the small-pox. To which are added, some experiments, instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox / [Thomas Dimsdale]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he ftiould take a purging draught. [It is ta be obferved that he had had ftools every day regularly; and remaining perfectly well, had taken no medicine for fome time.] I called on him again about two, and found him walking about the houfe, when he faid he was better, for that the phyfick had worked him five times very fufficiently, and each time he had been abroad to the privy, though it rained pretty fmartly. I faw him again in the evening, and then he made but little complaint of pain in either head or back, but was alrnoft inceffantly teized with a fhort tickling cough, and com¬ plained of his throat being fore. He then took another pill of the fame kind as that in the morning. Early the next day, the 13th, the nurfe in¬ formed me that he had been very reftlefs the whole night, had put on his deaths and came down flairs, but was nowgone into bed again; in hopes of getting a little reft. On going into his room I found him alrnoft drafted again, complaining that he had an alrnoft conftant irritation in the throat, and finding it im- poflible to get any fleep, was therefore com¬ ing