A dissertation on the inoculated small-pox. Or, an attempt towards an investigation of the real causes which render the small-pox by inoculation, so much more mild and safe, than ... when produced by the ordinary means of infection / [John Mudge].

  • Mudge, John, 1721-1793
Date:
1777
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Credit: A dissertation on the inoculated small-pox. Or, an attempt towards an investigation of the real causes which render the small-pox by inoculation, so much more mild and safe, than ... when produced by the ordinary means of infection / [John Mudge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the ikin, without any inconvenience except, perhaps, a few partial puftules invading the fldn round the fcabby parts 5 and as the feat of thofe difor- ders is ufually the furface of the body, (while the fubjedt is other wife in health, and the nobler parts are un- affedted) a few additional puftules are of no great confequence. The variolous poifon is therefore a thing fuigeneris, and noways affected by thofe taints of the juices, or what Is ufually called a bad habit of body; or at leaft fo inconfiderably, as not to deprive fuch patients of any of the advantages of inoculation, or now to deter experienced pradtitioners from performing the operation upon them. But *