Reasons against the inoculation of the small-pox. In a letter to Dr. Jurin. Being a full answer to every thing which Mr. Maitland and others have advanced upon that subject. With a particular account of the late Miss Rolt's case, as attested under the hand of the honourable Mrs. Rolt, her mother ... / [Francis Howgrave].

  • Howgrave, Francis.
Date:
1724
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Credit: Reasons against the inoculation of the small-pox. In a letter to Dr. Jurin. Being a full answer to every thing which Mr. Maitland and others have advanced upon that subject. With a particular account of the late Miss Rolt's case, as attested under the hand of the honourable Mrs. Rolt, her mother ... / [Francis Howgrave]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fo Iriconfiftent with himfelf; few Perfons being capable of faying or judging right when they are in a Surprize. Obftrudions very often proceed from the Blood’s being too Viicid, and therefore in too unadive a State, or the Veffels of the Womb being fo clog’d, as to render them unfit to per¬ form their proper Offices. From which foever of thole Caufes Obftrudions are form’d, we are fure the Blood muft be fermented, before c- < Nature can be reftor’d to her due Courfe again: and as Inoculating the SmalUPox produc’d this Change upon the three 'Women, who had been obftruded for feveral Months before* I hope he will allow me to fay, that the Blood, by this Method, muft have undergone a very great Change ,* and therefore the Event of this Pradice cannot always be fo faint ary as has been reorefented. And if this was fuffi- cient to alter the Attraction and Cohcefion of the Blood, it muft neceifarily put it into a ferment) and it was certainly thin’d by the Fever, which attended the Small-Pox. And as the Blood confifts of two Parts, viz. a Am¬ ple Lymph, and an infinite Number of final! Globules containing a very fubtil and elaftic Fluid, fThefe acute Salts, when mingled with it, cio prick the Globules or VeficuU, and fo let out their impriion’d adive Subftance 1 which expanding it felf every Way, muft t Via. Bernoulli de Effervefcentia Sc Fermentatione.