A letter to Dr. Freind ; shewing the danger and uncertainty of inoculating the small pox / By W. Wagstaffe.

  • William Wagstaffe
Date:
1722
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Freind ; shewing the danger and uncertainty of inoculating the small pox / By W. Wagstaffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But tho’ thefe, as far as we with any certainty know, may be the pnly Examples of the Misfortune of this Pradice among us, yet by Dr. ‘Dolhonde's Account before the feletf Men of the Town of Boflon in New Rngland, we find this Experiment has always been attended with the fame uncertain¬ ty. He there acquainted them, that about Twenty Five Years be¬ fore he faw Thirteen Soldiers ino¬ culated in the French Army at Cre¬ mona, of which Operation he de¬ clared, that Four died, Six recor vered with abundance of difficulty * l * w and trouble, and that on the other three it had no effefi. The firft yvho were, tho1 in great danger of their Lives, recover’d, he Remarks, were jeized afterwards with Tu¬ mours and Inflammations in the
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