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:
1767
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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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    In the evening the eruption was increafed confiderably in number, and (he was fo much eafier of her complaints as to bear being re¬ moved in a cart to a houfe in the neighbour¬ hood, where I gave her calomel three grains, emeiic tartar one eighth of a grain. She had fome reft this night, but the fevef continued ; and not having had any more ftoois, I ordered a laxative potion of inf. of iena and manna. She had three ftoois be¬ fore evening, and all her complaints abated. She was very full all over of a very confluent kind. This 37oung woman fat up the greateft part- of feveral days after ilie was quite blind, by her own choice; and I do not recollect ever feeing one with fo large a crop of puftules who went through the difeafe fo eafily • for file made no complaint but of forenefs, nor took any medicine but a few drops of thebaic tindture at bed-time, towards the crifis. C ASE -