The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation ... / by Daniel Sutton.

  • Sutton, Daniel, 1735-1819.
Date:
1796
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    pradlice. Nor have I, even under what I have judged to be the moft favorable perfonal advan- tages, dared to delay the antiphlogiflie prepara- tives beyond the third or fourth day after ino- culation ; and in fome of thefe trials, I have neither been fully fatisfied with my condudl nor my fuccefs. ’ M^hat'opinion the Faculty at large may en- tertain of my theory, or fpeculative realbning ' on the nature of this difeafe, I know not; nor am I very fblicitous about it. This, however, I will fay, that what I have here detailed is done with the greateft poffible fidelity. 'Vv hatever, therefore, becomes of my theory, I hope the pradlical obfervations will be thought worthy of ferious notice. \ I have dcfignedly not noticed fome of the or-* 'dinary febrile fymptoms, as unnecefiary to be, remarked ; fuch as yawnings, cold fifiverings, tranfient pains in the limbs, back. See. The foe- tidnefs of the breath, which is perceived to pro- ceed from fome patients, may, in fome meafure, be imputed to accidental caufes, and not fimply to the effedh of the fever, becaufe in fuch cafes every patient, in this fiage of infedtion, would have /