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

  • Sutton, Daniel, 1735-1819.
Date:
1796
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    ratory to fuch abforption; that the variolous principle thus difFufed and incorporated with the blood, caufed it to be corrupted and in- flamed in fuch a manner, that a fever was the inevitable confequence, fo as to produce a de- puration or clarification; and that after a due feparation of the inflamed particles,” they were expelled to the fiirface, there to colle6l and form puftules. In this way clearly he meant the difeafe fhould be chara6terized. This docftrine coming from a man of fuch eminence, was univerfally adopted, and the dif- eafe was treated accordingly, until by “ down- “ right blundering and by accident, as a late Au- thor has exprejfed himfelf, I Jhcmbled *” upon motives and reafons which induced me to doubt the truth of it, and to differ in opinion with the pra6litioners of the day : true it was, that long before, and even after that time, I fufpe<fted both their pradlice and principle w^ere founded in error. Bad health being totally out of the queftion, it was maintained that one age was preferable to * See lntroduflion to Dr. Dimfdale's pamphlet, publiflied In 1766. another: