Exanthematologia: or, an attempt to give a rational account of eruptive fevers, especially of measles and small pox. In two parts. Part I. Of the blood, the air, venoms, infection; fevers of all kinds ... and of such in particular as are morbillous with spots, or variolous with pustules ... but more professedly ... of the true measles. Part II. Of the small-pox / [Thomas Fuller].

  • Fuller, Thomas, 1654-1734
Date:
1730
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Credit: Exanthematologia: or, an attempt to give a rational account of eruptive fevers, especially of measles and small pox. In two parts. Part I. Of the blood, the air, venoms, infection; fevers of all kinds ... and of such in particular as are morbillous with spots, or variolous with pustules ... but more professedly ... of the true measles. Part II. Of the small-pox / [Thomas Fuller]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •;* ‘ ■ 8. IT is a very dangerous Thing. Judge any one which is moft dangerous, that by chancing Infection, which commonly kills One in Six; or that by Inoculation, under which there feldom dieth (all Cafualties reckon’d in) not above One in Fifty. I declare I have feen many inoculated, and among the reft my only Son; and I never faw it produce a Confluent Sort, or any ill Symptoms, and I have known but One that dy’d of it* of him I will give an Account in its Place. From all the Obfervations I have made, I am per- fuaded, and I think perfe&ly allured, as I can be of any thing of this Nature, that if the Patient be one that is fit for it, and be tolerably well manag'd, he will be fafe. p. It may bring the Diftemper into a Town where it was not before, and fo be the Occafion of the Death of many, and may deftroy the Trade of the Place. To this it is to be faid, that when the Small-Pox cometh into a Place, it commonly fpreadeth Contagion, either becaufe the infe&ed Perfon is not known fo to be foon enough to be avoided; or a convenient Houfe remote from others is not procured ; or due Care is not taken to prevent the carrying about of Contagion. But neither of thefe need happen where it is brought the artificial Way; for here it rulheth not on People at Unawares, but at luch a Time as is agreed upon and ap¬ pointed for it; and luch Difpofitions are made, and fuch Lodgings got, as with common Care, will not fend out the Difeafe to others. It may be further faid, that the more Perfons of a Town are inoculated, the fewer will be left to catch and difpeife