A manual of inoculation for the use of the Faculty and private families; pointing out the most approved method of inoculating and conducting patients through the small-pox; extracted from the writings of Dimsdale, Sutton and other eminent practitioners / By George Lipscomb.

  • Lipscomb, George, 1773-1846.
Date:
1806
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Credit: A manual of inoculation for the use of the Faculty and private families; pointing out the most approved method of inoculating and conducting patients through the small-pox; extracted from the writings of Dimsdale, Sutton and other eminent practitioners / By George Lipscomb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patient is confined to an horizontal pofition: the bed therefore lliould be avoided; and chil- dren, who at this period of the difeafe, fome- times fufFer great diftrefs, manifeft ahnoft imme- diate tranquilhty on'being. taken out of the cra- dle and carried into the air. Pain in the back, fucceeded by tranfient fhiverings and alternate heats: thefe continue till the eruption be com- pleted, with an unpleafant tafte in the mouth, and a foetor of the breath, pecuhar to the Small- Pox. The fymptoms here defcribed fometimes occur earlier, and fometimes later, but more ufually at this period, which is the moft important in the whole difeafe. No ignorance fays the experienced Sutton) no inattention to what is paffing on the arm njuft now be fullered: on the contrary, a juft and accurate difcri- mination between the indications afforded by it, is abfolutely indifpenfable, in order to enfure a regular and favourable Small Pox. It muft be remembered that many of the in- dications depend on the mode of pra6tice, which has been previoufly obferved ; and are fubje61; to variation in confequence of the future treatment purfued: that an unfavourable indication which depends on natural habit may be converted into a favourable one by Ikilful pra61:ice; but that negle6t or ignorance may render it the fure har- binger of danger and diftrefs. B3