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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    _ * 9 ■ T > Postscript to the above Letter. SIN CE I wrote this, I have likewife had an Opportunity of being afrefh fatisfied of what is above related with refpedt to Mr. Proiife, with thefe further Particulars, viz. i That he was at firft treated in the fame manner that other People ufually are, and put into a very temperate, if not too cool a Regimen. That the Small-Pox, thereupon, did not come on, or rather ftruck in, and that in confequence thereof, he was brought into the Straits in which he was upon the third and fourth Days. That, upon this, Dr. Bettenfon told Mr. Proufe’s Relations, of the good Effedls which he had fometimes feen from a free Ufe of Strong and Spirituous Liquors, in his Practice among People in the Country, but did not care to venture upon it in a Perfon of fuch tender Years, and of fuch confequence as Mr. Proufe was; but that it was infilled upon that he fhou’d do it, it being apparently a de- fperate Cafe, and there being nothing elfe feemingly to be done. That /