The history of the inoculation of the small-pox in Great Britain; comprehending a review of all the publications on the subject: with an experimental inquiry into the relative advantages of every measure which has been deemed necessary in the process of inoculation / By William Woodville ... In two volumes.

  • William Woodville
Date:
1796
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Credit: The history of the inoculation of the small-pox in Great Britain; comprehending a review of all the publications on the subject: with an experimental inquiry into the relative advantages of every measure which has been deemed necessary in the process of inoculation / By William Woodville ... In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ahron’s book, in which the Small-pox was noticed, has been deemed the earlieft known record of this difeafe; and its introduc- tion at that time into. Egypt, might have : been by the armies of Amrou, which in the kaliphate of Omar poured in thither from Arabia. Conformably with this opinion, Dr. Freind, who has profecuted this inquiry with much induftry and erudition, fays, “ By the earlieft account we have of the Small-pox, we find that it firft appeared in Egypt in the time of Omar, fucceflor to Mahomet; though no doubt, fince the Greeks knew nothing of it, the Arabians brought it out of their own country, and might derive it originally from morbo affectus effet ipfum adire & ab eo remedium petere. Hoc tempore inclaruit Ahron facerdos Alexandrinus : Syntagma ipfius in arte medica apud nos Syriace reperitur, triginta con- flans tractatibus, quibus duos anos addidit Sergius, Abul » Phar, Dyn. Ed. Pocock, p. 99. | fome
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