Observations on the modern method of inoculating the small-pox / by the same [i.e., George Baker].

  • Baker, George, 1722-1809.
Date:
[1772]
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Credit: Observations on the modern method of inoculating the small-pox / by the same [i.e., George Baker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XIX. Objervations on the modern method of inoculating the fmall- pox., by the fame. Read at the COLLEGE, September iq, 1771, SO much has already been written concerning the modem method of inoculating the fmall-pox, and the peculiarities of it in its feveral fteps and ftages, that it feems at this time unneceffary to enter into a particular detail of a pradtice, which is now not only diftinctly known by Phyficians, but is almoft become a matter of public notoriety. The procefs has heen generally this. I. The fubjedts have been prepared by a very abftemious diet, and by a mercurial purgative given and re- peted, previouily to the infe&ion,