An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox. And proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth.

  • Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.
Date:
1784
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Credit: An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox. And proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mankind are not necejfarily fubjeB to the jmall-pox ; it is always caught by infec- tion from a patient in the difiemper, or the poifonous matter, or fcabs, that come from a patient, and may be avoided by obferving thefe Rules gf Prevention*. <{ I. Suffer no perfon, who has not had the fmall-pox, to come into the in- fectious houfc. No vifitor, who has any communication with pcrfons liable to the dillemper, fhould touch or fit down on any thing infectious. l\ No patient, after the pocks have appeared, muft be faffered to go into the ftreet, or other frequented place. <£ III. The utmoft attention to clean- Jinefs is abfolutely neceffary : during and M'ter the diftemper, no perfon, clothes, food,