Observations on the cow-pox / by William Woodville.

  • William Woodville
Date:
1800
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Credit: Observations on the cow-pox / by William Woodville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    3^ dticed from the inoculation of the matter of that difeafe, iincontamiriatfed with any ottier. Having done this in a manner which has generally been deemed fatisfadtory, I did not now expe<S that any gentleman would pub- licity attempt to fubvert ray conclufion with- out firft doing rtie-'the juftice to fliow, that ihe reafons oh which it was founded were defedive or fallacious. Althougli I hav6 been difappoint^d in this expedlatiofii yet as f have no other object: in view than a difcovery- 6f'tlie truth,-' I-will fully ftate all the reafoh^ w'^ch-the -ingenious inventor of the new ino- culation has advanced in fupport of a contrary opinion. He firft enters upon the confidera- tion of puftules at page 7, where he fsys, ** When I confid^r the great number of cafes of cafual inoculation immediately froill ** cows, which have from time to time pre- ** fented thcmfelves t-o my ohfefvation, and A 2 the