Volume 1

Inoculation made easy : containing a full and true account of the method practised in the county of Essex ... The whole art being laid down in so clear and easy a method, as to render any one capable of inoculating themselves and others, with the greatest ease and safety. With a true receipt to make the preparative powders, repellent pills, and the punch used in inoculation.

Date:
1766
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Inoculation made easy : containing a full and true account of the method practised in the county of Essex ... The whole art being laid down in so clear and easy a method, as to render any one capable of inoculating themselves and others, with the greatest ease and safety. With a true receipt to make the preparative powders, repellent pills, and the punch used in inoculation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thePhyficj and if it does not operate Six or Eight Times in about Six Hours, it will be neceflary to take half another Paper of the Salts, (more or lefs as Occafion requires). Or if they be vomited up fliortly after being taken, as foon as the Sieknefs is entirely off, one of the other Papers of Salts muff be given. The other Powders and Salts are to be taken as above, omitting Three Days between each Dofe. The Deficiency of Salts may be had at an Apothecary’s : It will he requifite for the Patient to have a Stool on each of the intermediate Days during the Preparation, in order to which Stew’d Prunes, Roafled Apples, or Tamarinds, fhould be eaten occafionally. I fhall now inform my Reader how to make every Medicine to be ufed throughout the Diforder, and firft the Preparative Powders are as follows. Take ten Grains of Calomel and one Grain of faditious Cinnabar, and mix them well together for one Dofe. A Child of fix Years old may take a fourth part of a Paper ; from eight Years old to twelve half a Paper, and from twelve Years old to fifty a whole Paper } from fixty Years old to an hundred half a Paper -9 be careful not to omit taken the Salts in the Morning as before ordered ; the Salts are Glauber s Salts. A grown Perfon may take from half an Ounce to an Ounce, Children half an Ounce only;: 1 hefe Powders greatly cleanfe the Blood, are not only very effec¬ tual to prepare the Body for the Small-Pox but may s*!fo be depend- f (] i nn o c o n at? a i* -TVi 11 i n D ^ J £ XJ^T ' i. , r ' i > roi obiervmgthe above Rules: they are good likewife in Cutaneous Dif- oiders, inch as fouln-efs of the Skin, or Sores or Ulcers, and teterous Eruptions, tne Itch and Leprofy ; and thofe who are unwilling to he Inoculated, yet fearful of catching the Sma!l-Pcxy in the natural vvay, may in a great Meafure, be fequred from, it by taking the above Powders, foi it! urifies the Blood in fuch a Manner as to render it lels liable to the receive the Infedion. Or if the Diftemper fhould be caught after taking the Powders,the Patient may depend unon having it m a more favourable Manner. Thefe Powders are alfo'very valu¬ able;