Exanthematologia: or, an attempt to give a rational account of eruptive fevers, especially of the measles and small pox. In two parts. Part I. Of the blood, the air, venoms, infection; fevers of all kinds in general and of such in particular as are morbillous with spots, or variolous with pustules ... with their varieties, descriptions, names &c., but more professedly and fully of the true measles. To which is prefix'd a delineation and comparison of the old and new philosophy ... Part II. Of the smallpox. To which is added, An appendix concerning inoculation / [Thomas Fuller].

  • Fuller, Thomas, 1654-1734.
Date:
1730
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Credit: Exanthematologia: or, an attempt to give a rational account of eruptive fevers, especially of the measles and small pox. In two parts. Part I. Of the blood, the air, venoms, infection; fevers of all kinds in general and of such in particular as are morbillous with spots, or variolous with pustules ... with their varieties, descriptions, names &c., but more professedly and fully of the true measles. To which is prefix'd a delineation and comparison of the old and new philosophy ... Part II. Of the smallpox. To which is added, An appendix concerning inoculation / [Thomas Fuller]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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