The Present Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox / 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

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]

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INTRODUCTION.

From the time that I entered into the practice of medicine, and saw the danger to which the generality of those who had the small-pox in the natural way were exposed, I could not but sincerely wish, with every sensible person of the faculty, that Inoculation might become general.