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A discourse on the small pox and measles / By Richard Mead ... To which is annexed, a treatise on the same diseases, by the celebrated Arabian physician Abu-Beker Rhazes. The whole translated into English, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack.

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
Date:
1748
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Credit: A discourse on the small pox and measles / By Richard Mead ... To which is annexed, a treatise on the same diseases, by the celebrated Arabian physician Abu-Beker Rhazes. The whole translated into English, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He anfwering no, becaufe Syden¬ ham very feldom did it 5 I advifed him to open a vein in the begin¬ ning of the diftemper, or, if he was called in later, as foon however as he poffibly could: for, faid I, this difeafe always brings with it a peri- pneumony, which he very well knew ever required bleeding. Not long after, he met me again, returning me hearty thanks for my counfel, affuring me that he had not loft one patient, whom he had treated in this manner. Since that time, this practice grew fo common, that it is now followed even by our apo¬ thecaries. In the laft place, it is proper to take notice, that, as was obferved concerning the fmall pox ', that the difeafe is more or lefs rife, accord¬ ing as the feafon of the year and ! Chap, ii, ftate