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

  • Sutton, Daniel, 1735-1819.
Date:
1796
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    CHAP. I. Of Sydenham s Opinion on the Small-Pox—Changes which the variolous Contagion may undergo, hy diffufion through the Air—Doubts exprejfed whether the Difeafe ever becomes epidemic, and whether Juch a Thing as Epidemic Air did ever really exift. SYDENHAM, the great illuminator of the medical woi*ld, writing on the fubject of the fmall-pox, very candidly fays, “ What the ef- fence of this difeafe is, I ingenuoufly own I know not, by reafon of a natural defedl in the underftanding, common to me, and all man- “ kind.” Thus far I certainly agree with this juftly celebrated author. But with much deference to his exalted abi- lities, I conceive that he labours under an er- ror, as to the way in which the difeafe is gene- rated : On this fubjedt he goes on to obferv-e. But upon a thorough confideration of the fymptoms, > it fliould feem to be an inflamma- ‘Mion ofthe,. blood and juices; in removing “ which, nature, during the firft two or three (lays, endeavours to convert and digeft the “ inflamed