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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    i both on account of the fubjedt and the repu« tation of the practice, to defer inoculating children till they are about two years old. It feems not improper likewife to mention the following cafe; which, if the whole truth is not related, may pofiibly afford mat¬ ter of cavil againft inoculation. A fhort, thick-fet, middle-aged man was feized with the ufual fymptoms on the eighth day after inoculation. The erup¬ tion was favourable, the crop moderate, the puftules large and diftind, and no peculiar care was either required or obferved. The pock maturated in feven days ; after which he took two purges, and had fixed the day for his return to London. % Two days before his intended journey I found him in the morning fitting by the fire, with his hand upon his head upon enquir¬ ing the reafon, he anfwered, my head feels very queer to-day : a perfon in company added, that he had made too free with mut¬ ton the day before; but this he denied. He did not however feem much indifpofed; T he