A treatise of the small pox. In two parts. Part I. Containing a Description both of the Distinct and Confluent Kind; when they proceed regularly; and of the curative Indications in every Period; and of the Methods of managing variolous Patients, as to Heat, and Cold; Clothing, and Diet; Medicines, &c. Also an Account of the incidental Symptoms, as to their Causes and Effects, and the Indications of Cure, and the proper Remedies in reference to each of them. Likewise Answers to the Arguments of the most celebrated Physicians, for Bleeding in this Disease; and then Proofs of the Probability of curing it in the febrile State, so as to prevent the Eruption and other after Periods, and a Method likely to effect it; which, if effectual, may preserve Persons from having this Distemper. Part II. Exhibiting Histories of Cases, in which this Disease and its various Symptoms, are exemplified. Also a Dissertation on the Management of young Children under it; and a Method of external Remedies for those who will not take internal Medicines; and then some practical Aphorisms deduced from the Histories. By Theophilus Lobb, M. D. and Fellow of the Royal Society.

  • Lobb, Theophilus, 1678-1763.
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MDCCXXXI. [1731]
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London : printed for T. Woodward, at the Half Moon near Temple-Bar; C. Davis, in Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by Mr. Green, Bookseller at Chelmsford; and Mr. Lobb, Bookseller at Bath, MDCCXXXI. [1731]

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[8],xl,[8],472,[18]p. ; 80.

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ESTC T59541
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1695

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