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Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox. By…
Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox. By the learned Dr. Emanuel Timonius, and Jacobus Pylarinus. With some remarks thereon. : To which are added, a few queries in answer to the scruples of many about the lawfulness of this method. / Published by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston.Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox. By the learned Dr. Emanuel Timonius, and Jacobus Pylarinus. With some remarks thereon. : To which are added, a few quaeries in answer to the scruples of many about the lawfulness of this method. / Published by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston.
Boston: : Sold by S. Gerrish at his shop in Corn-Hill., 1721
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They that have this Inoculation practised on them (he says) are subject unto very Slight Symptoms, and hardly sensible of any Sickness, nor do what Small Pox they have, ever leave any Scars or Pits behind them.
They make choice of as Healthy a Young Person as they can find, that has the Small Pox of the best sort upon him, on the Twelfth or Thirteenth Day of his Decumbiture. With a Needle they prick some of the larger Pustules, and press out the Matter coming from them into some convenient Vessel of Glass (or the like) to receive it, which ought first of all to be washed very clean with warm Water. A convenient quantity of this Matter being thus collected, is to be stopped close, and kept warm in the bosom of the Person that carries it (who ought rather to be some other Person, than what visited the Sick Chamber for it, lest the Infection of the Small Pox be conveyed in the Garment, as well as in the Bottle, and the intended Operation be hurt by the Infection being first conveyed ⟨p. 3⟩another way, and so it should be conveyed as soon as may be to the Person that is waiting to be the Patient.
They make choice of as Healthy a Young Person as they can find, that has the Small Pox of the best sort upon him, on the Twelfth or Thirteenth Day of his Decumbiture. With a Needle they prick some of the larger Pustules, and press out the Matter coming from them into some convenient Vessel of Glass (or the like) to receive it, which ought first of all to be washed very clean with warm Water. A convenient quantity of this Matter being thus collected, is to be stop'd close, and kept warm in the bosom of the Person that carries it (who ought rather to be some other Person, than what visited the Sick Chamber for it, lest the Infection of the Small Pox be convey'd in the Garment, as well as in the Bottle, and the intended Operation be hurt by the Infection being first conveyed ⟨p. 3⟩another way, and so it should be conveyed as soon as may be to the Person that is waiting to be the Patient.