An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton].

  • Charles Buxton
Date:
1793
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INAUGURAL DISSERTATION. MEAS. L.-E,S. Uron reflecting on the variety.of diftreffing difeafes to which our fellow creatures are: daily expofed, from unknown caufes, we are led by nature, irrefiftibly, from their great importance to ourfelves,: toinveftigate the fources from whence they arife,.and trace their effets by gradation. ity hain of] Unfortunately for the fcience of Medicine, the refult of thefe inquiries has*in all ages proved, in a great meafure, unfatisfactory. In no clafs.of difeafes perhaps, has this been more notorious than in ‘the° contagious, though frequently of the higheft confequence, from the great mortality often induced by its rage. From thefe confiderations, I feel an inclination to choofe for the fubje&t of my Differtation, one of thofe difeafes that are frequently epidemic; not from any defire of appearing as an author, but principally in, compliance. with the oruleés
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