A manual of inoculation for the use of the Faculty and private families pointing out the most approved method of inoculation and conduction patients through the small-pox; extracted from the writings of Dimsdale, Sutton and other eminent practitioners / [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 inoculation and conduction patients through the small-pox; extracted from the writings of Dimsdale, Sutton and other eminent practitioners / [George Lipscomb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13 frequent exercife in temperate air invigorates the digeftive powers, and promotes that gentle relaxation of the Ikin, which is moll favourable / to the progrefs of a mild difeafe. The patient fhould be kept out of bed; and as much as possible in the open air; particu¬ larly during the eruptive fever. In this circum- ftance, the employment of purgatives, and the ufe of mercurial alteratives, confifts ^t.fecret of the moft famous modern Inoculators, to which -^hey have been indebted for their great fuccefs in pra6lice; and the negleft of which can alone account for the mortality of the natural Small- Pox in the hands of others. The effecls of cool air are lb falutary and re- frefliing, that it fliould never be difpenfed with, unlefs the weather be extremely inclement or the patient remarkably delicate: and whatever re- lu6lanc€ may be felt to comply with fuch in- jun6lions, experience Ihews that thofe who have been prevailed on to rife out of their beds and go into he open air, even when unable to walk without affiftance, have had their fpirits revived, their appetite reftored, and their fleep rendered far more comfortable and refrefhing than' be-- fore:—-afterwards a gentle relaxation of the fkin comes on accompanied by a favourable eruption, and the fever entirely difappears. The iiluftrious Sydenham who may be con-