A practical essay on the small-pox: wherein a method of preparing the body before the disease comes on, and of deriving the variolous matter from the vital to the remote parts of the body after the accession, in order to prevent the fatal Consequences which too often attend it, is proposed; a Method of curing the Small-Pox by Resolution, or taking off the Inflammation, is recommended. Together with an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of this Disease. The second edition, with additions. To which is added, an account of the principal variations of the weather, and the concomitant epidemic diseases, as they appeared at Rippon, and the circumjacent Parts of Yorkshire, from the year 1726, to the end of 1734. By William Hillary, M.D. at Bath.

Date:

1740