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.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    fermented liquors, with the greateft prudence and caution. When the food is permitted to be changed, the patient may be indulged alfo with a mode- rate quantity of his ufual beverage. The difeafe having been thus paffed through, it has been ufual to exhibit two or three dofcs of the cathartic medicine : in confequenca of a miftaken idea that fome purification of the fyftem was necelTary : this practice has more of 'fafhion than philolophy to recommend it. The cutaneous eruptions and excoriations which fometimes talsi place foon after patients have recovered from the Small-Pox, may be accounted for more rationally, if we refie6l on the fudden increafe of appetite which ufually follows fevers of every defcription, and the con- fequent cxceffive indulgence in improper quan- tities of food. It is therefore very proper to exhibit cathartic medicines to convalefcents after the Small-Pox, particularly whenever they may have been fufpected of irregularities in point of diet: and more benefit will be derived from iuch attentions than is ufually experienced, irom a compliance with the faihionable praftice of giving phyfic immediately on the termination of the difeafe. By the method of treatment thus concifely defcribed, all the mifchiefs of that dreadful dif- eafe, the natural Small-Pox may be prevented: