A new method of curing the small-pox; by which that disease ... is rendered as void of danger as when received from inoculation ... With a specimen of miscellaneous observations on medical subjects / From the Latin by a physician [i.e. T. Houlston].

  • Closs, Johann Friedrich, 1735-1787
Date:
1767
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Credit: A new method of curing the small-pox; by which that disease ... is rendered as void of danger as when received from inoculation ... With a specimen of miscellaneous observations on medical subjects / From the Latin by a physician [i.e. T. Houlston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE ■ TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. IT is uiilverfally remarked by foreigners, that the Engllih nation arc but little converfant with books printed in any other country and language • than their own. This obfervation, in general, muft be admitted, and certainly pays the highefi: tacit , compliment, to the merits and abilities of our own authors. Yet, as there cannot but be many ufeful difeoveries made abroad, the removing thefe two impediments to their being well known in England, is a fufficient excufe for a tranflator. Inoculation, now lb frequently and fuccefs- fully pra6lifed, has deprived the Small-Pox of much of Its danger: but, this aid cannot be had, after a perfon is infe(S:ed in the natural way. The follow¬ ing Trcatife has for its ob]e61:, the rendering the Small-Pox void of danger, and that at a time vvdien Inoculation would come too late. The importance of this, is too feif evident to need enlarging upon. The fuccefs of it will appear from the author’s ac¬ count of the trials he has made of it, and of their confequences. I have alfo known it tried by ano¬ ther ingenious Phyfician, who informs me k has hitherto anfwered well with him. There arc fome Hypothefes in the book, of which I differ in opi¬ nion from the author. Yet, to have given an ex- tra(ff of fo fliort a treatife In which a new method A 2 of