An inquiry into the merits of a method of inoculating the small-pox, which is now practised in several counties of England / By George Baker.

  • Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet
Date:
MDCCLXVI. [1766]
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Credit: An inquiry into the merits of a method of inoculating the small-pox, which is now practised in several counties of England / By George Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ fi0 ] have died. It muft be allowed that iucli a proportion of deaths is greater than what has been ufual under Inoculation. Al¬ though I do not take upon me to account for this failure, (not having been at all concerned in inoculating any one, my own fervant excepted) yet in order to throw all the light that I can upon the caufes of thefe misfor¬ tunes, I now fend you as exad an hiftory of the whole tranfac- tion as it has been in my power to colled;. The circumftances which both preceded, and attended our Inoculation, were fuch as would not give one grounds to exped the beft fuccefs from it. * It muft then be obferved,that the Small-Pox have lately pre-