Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations: Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there, by Command of her Imperial Majesty, in the Russian Language — John Shaqi
Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations: Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there, by Command of her Imperial Majesty, in the Russian LanguageDimsdale, Thomas
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Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations: Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there, by Command of her Imperial Majesty, in the Russian Language
Dimsdale, Thomas
Smallpox -- Vaccination -- Early works to 1800
It will not be in my power to execute this plan with the accuracy I
could wish, being engaged in an employment that demands much time and
attention. But I will use my best endeavours to describe in the first
place a method of propagating the practice of Inoculation, so that it
may not be dangerous to those in the neighbourhood, who, either on
account of bad health, age, prejudice, or other reasons, are unwilling
to submit to the operation, and at the same time render it salutary to
such as are proper objects and approve of it.
It is not to be supposed that the method now practised in England so
successfully, can be received in Russia without some alteration. The
experiments however which I have made in England, in order to ascertain
the most commodious manner of conducting the affair, may be of use here;
which I shall therefore describe as clearly as possible. * *
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In the original published in Russia, there followed a circumstantial
account of the house I had built for the accommodation of my patients in
England, and the manner of conducting the process, &c. there; which, as
it would be of no consequence or use to insert in this translation, I
have omitted. * * * * *
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One, and indeed no inconsiderable advantage derived from a plan of this
sort is, that by collecting all the patients together in one house, the
physician will be enabled to attend a great number at the same time in a
proper manner, and also to pay particular attention to such as may more
immediately require his assistance.
And it is of no small importance to those who have been inoculated, that
the necessary regulations in respect to regimen, as well as every other
circumstance that requires the physician’s attention, may here be
properly observed.
There is likewise another advantage obtained by this method, that, with
proper caution, the Small Pox will not be communicated to others in the
natural way of infection.
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