Category: History - Modern (1750+)

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

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7. Part 7

A young woman was seized with a fever, and the usual symptoms. The next day an eruption appeared, which gave some suspicion of the small-pox: on the third day more spots were di...

5. Part 5

This operated moderately by vomit, discharging some bile, and also twice by stool. The stomach was much relieved, but the rash remained, and put on so much the appearance of a c...

4. Part 4

During the course of many years practice of inoculating in the former usual method, I generally committed to writing the most remarkable occurrences to have recourse to. Among t...

6. Part 6

His arms at that time shewed certain signs of the infection having succeeded, which continued advancing to the 9th day, when the inflammations about the incisions appeared consi...

3. Part 3

Some of my own patients, and, as I am credibly informed, of other inoculators in this way, have had considerable eruptions of this kind after they have returned home; which have...

2. Part 2

But it appears very clearly from the present practice of inoculation, that so soon as any moisture can be taken from the infected part of an inoculated patient, previous to the...

1. Part 1

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8. Part 8

Reponse. “Ce n’est qu’au bout de ce tems qu’il a été attaqué d’une maladie, que je crois, sans balancer, avoir été une espece de fievre putride. Il ne faut cependant pas, selon...