Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768, by command of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias : with additional observations on epidemic small-pox, on the nature of that disease, and on the different success of the various modes of inoculation / by the Hon. Baron T. Dimsdale, physician and actual counsellor of state to Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias, and F.R.S.

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768, by command of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias : with additional observations on epidemic small-pox, on the nature of that disease, and on the different success of the various modes of inoculation / by the Hon. Baron T. Dimsdale, physician and actual counsellor of state to Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias, and F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It may be proper to mention that the meafles, and anomalous eruptions under the general name of rafhes, have fometimes been confidered as true fmall-pox; but in thefe the doubts are eafily cleared up by a proper attention, fo that no miflakes of this kind are in danger of being perma- nent. But the difeafes that very much refemble, and have been moft frequently taken for fmall-pox, are fwine and chicken-pox; v^^hich indeed differ from each other in fcarce any circumftance, except the lize of the puftules, and have been by fome fuppofed to be the fame. In fadt, they are fuch trifling difordcrs, that it feems of no great importance to determine that quef- tion ; however, thofe cafes, in w^hich either are attended with a great number of puf- tules, certainly refemble very much a mild kind of fmall-pox, and the diftinguifhing points which require the mofl attentive ob-