Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768, by command of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias : with additional observations on epidemic small-pox, on the nature of that disease, and on the different success of the various modes of inoculation / by the Hon. Baron T. Dimsdale, physician and actual counsellor of state to Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias, and F.R.S.

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768, by command of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias : with additional observations on epidemic small-pox, on the nature of that disease, and on the different success of the various modes of inoculation / by the Hon. Baron T. Dimsdale, physician and actual counsellor of state to Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias, and F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be in what may be termed a pcrfedt ftate of preparation, might reafonably be exped:ed to have the fmall-pox very favour- ably; yet, notwithftanding thefe plaufible appearances, it not unfrequently happens, that perfons of the firfl: mentioned clafs pafs through the difeafe favourably, w^hilc thofe of the latter fuffer extremely, and even become vidlims to its malignity. It may be further obferved, that no pre- paration, either by medicine or regimen, has as yet been found effectual in produ-» cing a favourable kind of fmall-pox in thofe who, having been unhappily expofed to natural infedtion, fubmit to fuch regu- lations as are judged moft proper, and de- termine to wait the event. It is undoubt- edly true, that a good conftitution, and a regular courfe of life, are advantages upoa the attack of any illnefs, but little depend- ance can be had on- them, in refpedt to their producing a mild kind of the natu- ral fmall-pox. I lhall