THE PRESENT METHOD OF INOCULATING FOR THE S M A L L - P O X.
Reading edition
To which are added,
Some Experiments, instituted with a View to discover the Effects of a similar Treatment in the Natural Small-Pox.
By THOMAS DIMSDALE, M. D.
The SEVENTH EDITION, Corrected.
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MDCCLXXIX
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TO THE
Royal College of Physicians
IN
L O N D O N,
This Treatise is inscribed,
With all due Deference
and Respect,
BY
T H E A U T H O R.
INTRODUCTION.1
Of the Age, Constitution, and Season of the Year proper for Inoculation.9
Of the Preparation.17
Of Infection.23
Of the Progress of Infection.30
OF ANOMALOUS SYMPTOMS AND APPEARANCES.42
Consequences of this Method of Inoculation.55
The Effects of this Treatment applied to the natural Small-Pox.61
CONCLUSION.77
CASES.84
CASES of the natural Small-pox, treated in the preceding Method.139
POSTSCRIPT.161
CASE.164