An historical account of the small-pox inoculated in New England ... : With some account of the nature of the infection in the natural and inoculated way, and their different effects on human bodies / [Zabdiel Boylston].

  • Boylston, Zabdiel, 1679-1766
Date:
1726
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Credit: An historical account of the small-pox inoculated in New England ... : With some account of the nature of the infection in the natural and inoculated way, and their different effects on human bodies / [Zabdiel Boylston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 C 2 ) Pox in the Levant, and Tent them to the Pra&itioners of the Town, for their Confideration thereon. Up¬ on reading of which I was very: well pleas’d, and re- iolv d in my Mind to try the Experiment 3 well re- membring the DePrudtion the Small-Pox made 19 Years before, when lap in Boflon 3 and how narrow¬ ly I then elcap’d with my Life, Now, when my Wife and many others were gone out of Town to avoid the DiPemper, and all Hope given up of preventing the further fpreading of it, and the Guards were firP removed from the Doors of infe&ed Houfes, i began the Experiment 3 and not being able to make it upon mylelf, (luch was my Paith in the Safety and Succefs of this Method) I chofe to make it (for Ex¬ ample fake) upon my own dear Child, and two of my Servants. JUNE the 26th, 1721, I inoculated my $onTho~ maSy, of about fix, my Negro Man, Jack, thirty Ex, and Jackey, two and an half Years old. They all complain'd on the 6th Day ,• upon the 7th, the; two Children were a little hot, dull, and fleepy, Tho¬ mas (only) had twitchings and Parted in his Peep. The 28th, the Childrens Fevers continued, Tommy s. switchings and Partings in Peep increafed ,* and tho’ the Fever was gentle and his Senfes bright, yet as the Prac-. ticc was new. and the Clamour, or rather Rage of *- * ' - -T.1r ^ * ■ ' ’• '•./»