THE
CONTENTS.
PART I.
OF the Nature of the Small-Pox, |
Page 7 |
That it is a Fever, |
ibid. |
What a Fever is, |
p. 8 |
Of the several Sorts of Fevers, |
ibid. |
The Small-Pox is a Fever of the Inflammatory Kind, |
p. 11 |
An Account of its efficient and material Causes, |
p. 12 |
How it is distinguished from other inflammatory Fevers, |
ibid. |
How this Distemper is first introduced into the Body, |
p. 13 |
The animal Spirits receive the first Impressions of it, |
ibid. |
Of the several Sorts, or Species of the Small-Pox, (viz.) the Distinct, Middle, and Confluent, or Flux Kind, |
p. 14 |
The History of the Distinct, that is, the most gentle and favourable Kind of Small-Pox, |
p. 14 |
An Account of the various and peculiar Symptoms that accompany this mild Sort from its Rise to its Termination, |
p. 17 |
The Method of Cure in this favourable Sort, |
p. 42 |
Why this is called the Distinct Sort, and an Account of its different Degrees, |
ibid. |
Of the Middle Kind: An Account of their Nature, and by what Marks and Peculiarities they are distinguished from the other Sorts, |
p. 21 |
This is not yet reckoned by any Writers as a different Species or Kind of Small-Pox from the Distinct and Confluent, but notwithstanding proved to be so by evident Reasons, |
p. 22 |
The Physicin’s Province, wherein he may he principally useful, lyes in this and the Mildest Sort of the Confluent Small-Pox, |
p. 23 |
Of the Confluent Kind, |
ibid. |
By what specifick or characteristick Marks this Sort is discriminated and diversify’d from the Distinct and Middle Kind, |
p. 24 |
An Account of its poisonous and malignant Nature, and in what it consists, |
p. 25 |
The History of the peculiar Symptoms that attend this dangerous Sort thro’ all its Stages, that is, ( 1. ) From the first Sickness, or Invasion, to the Eruption of the red Spots, or Pustules. ( 2. ) From that Eruption upon the Skin till their Maturation commences. ( 3. ) From the Beginning of the Maturation to the End of the Distemper, |
p. 26 |
Of the Method of Cure in this dangerous Kind. |
p. 52 |
Blood-letting, when the Maturation is near, or begun, condemn’d. |
ibid. |
Purging Medicines at, or after that Time, unprofitable and hazardous, |
p. 75 |
Vesicatories, or Blisters, when useful, and for what Reason, |
p. 74 |
Vomitive Remedies recommended, in what Circumstances, and for what Ends, |
p. 55 |
PART II.
A Dissertation upon the Modern Practice of Inoculation, |
page 81 |
The Introduction, |
ibid. |
The Natives of Great Britain fond of Novelties in Religion and in Physick, |
ibid. |
An Inquiry, Whether those Persons who first introduced into this Kingdom the foreign and novel Practice of Inoculation have made good what they promised and pretended to effect by this Operation, |
p. 85 |
Inoculation does not always bring forth upon the Skin any Kind of Pustules, or Eruptions, at all, |
p. 86 |
When it brings forth a spurious Sort of Eruptions, very different from the Small-Pox, those ingenuine Eruptions do not always prevent the catching of the true Small-Pox afterwards, |
ibid. |
The Operators do not always produce the mild, safe, and distinct Kind, but sometimes the confluent and dangerous Sort are produced, |
ibid. |
Two great Objections urged against this Practice of Inoculation, |
ibid. |