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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    tion, as I fuppofe it at that time to have its utmoft adivity. I fhould not have faid any thing on this fubjed: at prefent, had I not thought it ne- celTary to take notice of a late publication which militates flrongly againft my pofi- tion. The refpedlability of the author,* and the importance of the queftion merit at- tention. He fays, that from fome remark- able inftances, which he has feen himfelf, he has reafon to believe that a fluid taken from the inoculated arm, previous to the eruptive fever, is a very uncertain method of infedting, and therefore, a hazardous re- finement of the operation; and gives the following inftances as decifive on the quef- tion. Five furgeons at Plymouth inoculated 40 patients, 30 of whom were inoculated with crude matter, taken from the arm af a * Mudge on the Inoculated Small-Pox, vide from p. 17 to 23. womaix »