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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    who are nourifhed by wholfomc rhilk, from temperate healthy nurles; having regular bow¬ els, moderate perfpiration, moift and coarfe skin; accuftomed to partake of the ordinary provifions of common tables; and who have not been confined to.a precife regimen, or too rigid reftraints with regard to diet and exercife. Young perfons and adults, grofs, flefhy, and difpofed to perfpire; not liable to the exertions of hard labour, or the influence of fudden heat or cold; in a word, perfons of all ages, from infancy to the remoteft period of life, who are of good {lamina. Unfavourable Subje&s. Children not having had the thrulh or red- gum ; peevilli and irritable in difpdfition; during the time of dentition ; lean; with a dry and parched fkin; habitually coftive; fed with aeid or impure milk, fuch as that of dram ^ drinkers ; narrow chefted ; ricketty ; thofe who have been too icrupuloufly confined to a parti¬ cular fpecies or quantity of food: fubjeft to worms; or having been recently expofed to the infection of the meafles or any other difeafe. Perfons more advanced in life; of very deli¬ cate irritable habits; acutely fenfible; gouty; rheumatical; accuftomed to be expofed'to the heat of blaft-furnaces, forges, .glafs-houfes, &c.