A treatise of the small pox. In two parts. Part I. Containing a description both of the distinct and confluent kind; when they proceed regularly; and of the curative indications in every period; and of the methods of managing variolous patients, as to heat, and cold; clothing, and diet; medicines, &c. Also an account of the incidental symptoms, as to their causes and effects, and the indications of cure, and the proper remedies in reference to each of them. Likewise answers to the arguments of the most celebrated physicians, for bleeding in this disease; and then proofs of the probability of curing it in the febrile state, so as to prevent the eruption and other after periods, and a method likely to effect it; which, if effectual, may preserve persons from having this distemper. Part II. Exhibiting histories of cases, in which this disease and its various symptoms, are exemplified. Also a dissertation on the management of young children under it; and a method of external remedies for those who will not take internal medicines; and then some practical aphorisms deduced from the histories. By Theophilus Lobb, M. D. and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Dr Theophilus Lobb (1678-1763)
Category
Books
Date
1731
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008036
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], xl, [8], 472, [18] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5760. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Dr Theophilus Lobb (1678-1763)