The new method of inoculating for the small-pox : delivered in a lecture in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February, 1781 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
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MDCCXCII [1792]
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Credit: The new method of inoculating for the small-pox : delivered in a lecture in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February, 1781 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    purpofe. We obferve a plentiful difcharge of matter from them every time the body is expofed to cold, and the febrile effects of it upon the fyftem are thereby frequents ly obviated. How far a ratio exifts be- tween the degrees of inflammation and the difcharge of matter from the arm, and the degrees of fever and eruption, muft be de- termined by future and very accurate obfer- vations. If it mould appear that there are the leaft inflammation and fmalleft dif- charge, where there have been the higheft fever and moft copious eruption ; and on the contrary, if it mould appear that there are the greateft inflammation and difcharge where there have been the leaft fever and fmalleft eruption, I muft beg leave to add, without attempting in this place to explain the reafons of it, that the remark, if gene- rally true, is liable to fome exceptions. But the fubject is involved in darknefs; I fhall be fatisfied if I have brought you with-r in fight of the promifed land. Your own ingenuity, like another Jewifh leader, muft conduct you thither. The indications in the treatment of the body during the eruptive fever are, j ft. To regulate the degree of fever. ad. To