Several cases in physick, and one in particular, giving an account of a person who was inoculated for the small-pox and had the small-pox upon the inoculation, and yet had it again. Together with two or three other very remarkable small-pox cases, &c. To which is added, a letter to Dr. Lee, giving him an account of a letter of Dr. Freind's concerning that fever which infested the army in Spain; together with the said letter / By Pierce Dod.

  • Dod, Peirce, 1683-1754.
Date:
1746
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Credit: Several cases in physick, and one in particular, giving an account of a person who was inoculated for the small-pox and had the small-pox upon the inoculation, and yet had it again. Together with two or three other very remarkable small-pox cases, &c. To which is added, a letter to Dr. Lee, giving him an account of a letter of Dr. Freind's concerning that fever which infested the army in Spain; together with the said letter / By Pierce Dod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and a copious Quantity of Acids; but then he adds, that this Relief was only temporary, and that, to confefs the Truth, he never knew any Body that made that fort of Water, who ever furviv’d the 16th Day from the Eruption, and there is no Body whom I know of, that has been converfant in this Diftemper, but has conftantly experienc’d, fooner or later, the like Fatality in confequence of it: I mean, when this fort of Urine has plainly proceeded from a broken Crafts or Contexture, or as it were a thorough Diffolution of the whole Mafs of Blood : For I know very well you fhall now and then have feveral Streaks, and fometimes larger Quantities of Blood, in the Urine, from the Acrimony of the Salts that are in Spanifh Flies, upon the Application of Blifters, which are frequently ordered, and mofxly likewife ne- ceffary, in one or other of the Stadia of this Diftemper, and yet the Patient fhall do well. And Dr. Browne, who was a very worthy Predeceflbr of mine in St. Bartholomew's Hos¬ pital, gives an Account of a Gentlewoman that liv’d in Deans lard, JVefminjler, who made bloody Urine in the Small-Pox, for four or five Days together, and that Dr. Needham, who attended her along with him, did, upon that account, forfake her, and yet fhe did well; but that they found afterwards, that this bloody Urine was not occafion’d by the Malignancy