Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768 ... with additional observations on epidemic small-pox / By T. Dimsdale.

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
1781
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Credit: Tracts, on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768 ... with additional observations on epidemic small-pox / By T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [P65 a] ly beaten and level for travelling. Our carriages were therefore on wheels when we fet out, and we were obliged to travel with a great number of horfes, and flowly. This was at the time when the war broke out between thé Ruffians and Turks, and our journey was retarded, on account of our going juft after the troops, who took this rout on their march to the confines of the empire, to the general rendezvous at Kiof, in the Ukraine; their baggage, &c. having employed the poft-horfes fo much, that in many places we found it difficult © to procure fuch as were able to proceed with us. Under thefe circumftances, though there was every where a difpofition in the inhabitants to afflift us as much as poffible, we were neverthelefs fo much de- layed, that we did not arrive at Mofco till early on the morning of the feventh day, from the time of fetting out, and eleventh from the inoculation. The fame journey is frequently performed in three days. I was exceedingly concerned at the F delay,
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