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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    INTRODUCTION. FROM the time that I entered into the practice of medicine, and faw the danger to which the generality of thofe who had the fmall-pox in the natural way were expofed, I could not but lincerely wifh, with every feniible perfon of the faculty, that Inoculation might become general. A considerable (hare of employ- ment in this branch of my profef- lion has for upwards of twenty years occurred to me ; and altho’ I have been fo fortunate as not to lofe a patient under inoculation, except B one