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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    long before the conqueft of Alexandria, he ftates the authority of Dr. John James Reifke, who fays, that in an old Arabic M.S. preferved in the public library at Leyden, he read the following words :—“ In this year the Small- pox and meafles made their firft appearance in Arabia.” Pe 8 By this year’ is to be underftood thie, of the birth of Mahomet; and in confirmation. of this another evidence, affeCing the fame chronology, fhall now be adduced. Among the curious and interefting’ infor- mation, lately publithed by Mr. Bruce, it appears from fome Arabian annals, procured by this adventurous traveller, that the era of the firft appearance of the Small-pox in Ara- bia attaches to that of the fiege of Mecca. In the account of this fiege, as given by E]. Hameefy, an Arabian author, and related 1 Hoc demum anno comparuerunt primum in terris Arabum variole & morbillii— Dip. inaug. Lugd, Bat. 1746, by