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

  • Sutton, Daniel, 1735-1819.
Date:
1796
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    are not attentive to this practice, and make large and deep pundtures, fo as to penetrate quite through the Ikin, the centre of the inci- lion may in confequence appear afterwards more deprefled than it otherwife would have been; and it will, in the courfe of infection, be more fub- ject to flough and become foul; and the glands of the arm-pit miore liable to be afFedted: fo alfo a large and unnecefTary quantity of matter employed for infedling, particularly at a time when the fkin is in a humid flate, may folicit puflules about the incifion, even to a degree of confluency, which might not have happened had a fmall quantity been ufed and the fkin dry : however, this confluency much oftener proceeds from a natural difpofition to froward- nefs. The inflammation on the arm alfo will not be fo extenfive; and the halo or ring fur- rounding the puncture, during the .eruptive fymptoms, will be lefs frequent. And, if I can rely on my obfervations, the eruptive fymptoms will be more refra6lory, and the fmall-pox more abundant from the ufe of ftale dried matter, than from that which is frefli and adtive. There is a poflibility, I confcfs, that variolous matter, taken at the early ftage I ha^’n recom- F ' mencjed.