Volume 2

The analysis of inoculation: comprizing the history, theory, and practice of it: with an occasional consideration of the most remarkable appearances in the small pox / By J. Kirkpatrick.

  • James Kirkpatrick
Date:
1754
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Credit: The analysis of inoculation: comprizing the history, theory, and practice of it: with an occasional consideration of the most remarkable appearances in the small pox / By J. Kirkpatrick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    adventurous Mr. Frewin fays, he has known 21 Perfons inoculated the fame Day, from a con¬ fluent Pock, which finally killed the Patient; yet alithofe, he affirms, had it in as favourable a Way as could be wiffied. He adds, he has inoculated many more with Matter of the malignant kind, without the leaft .ill Confequence. Now, tho’ I am not without fome Acknowlegement for fuch an Illumination on this curious Topic, as I fhali not chufe to queftion the Author-s Veracity; yet I mud confefs the Idea of it gives me a Horror, which is not very philofophical perhaps; but is fuch, as would prevent me from troubling him to feled Pock for a Friend or Patient of mine, I fliould have wanted an eighth Convidt for the Experiment, The foie Ufe I would make of fhefe Inftances is this, that fuppofing, only for Argument's Sake, fuch a confluent and malig¬ nant Small Pox to reign fo generally, that no bet¬ ter Matter could be procured, I ffiould prefer inoculating even from them to their natural In- fedtion. I muft fuppofe however, that it is not taken from a Difeafe attended with a Gangrene, which we have cautioned the Subjects of the Small Pox to avoid the Stench of. But in other Refpedts enough has been inftanced and implied, to make the Friends of Inoculation admit, that the Opportunity of [electing Matter, from a par¬ ticular Sort or Degree of the Difeafe, is far from being its mod material Advantage. We proceed to confider, whether the infec- |lous Matter is communicative of any other Dif*
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