On the progress and present state of the practice of vaccination.

  • Thomas Bateman
Date:
[1811]
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Credit: On the progress and present state of the practice of vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18/22 page 14
    be proper to add the sequel of the other case.— The father not only suffered very deeply from a confluent small-pox, but fell a victim to that dreadful disea«e. The VACCINE or COW^POCK INOCULATION. mi A report was lately made to the Class of Phy- L'Jftcal SciencLS of the Imperial Institute at Paris, S|in which it is stated, that out of moie than twa 7 millions and a half of subjects Viscciuated in France, only seven authenticated cases appear of patients ha-ving' afterwards taken the small-pox. By the Glasgow hills of mortality, it appears that 49 persons died by the small-pox in 1811; and in 1812, only 24 persons. Before the intro- dtiction of the Cow-pock, several hundvcch nir.D anmiall]/ of the Small-pox. 8MALL-POX INOCULATION. Lord EUenhorough lately revived, in the House of Lords, the law which enacts that inoculating with the small-pox near any ])lace to which the King's subjects resort, is an indictable offence in all concerned in it; and said, there was no doubt that parties con^^cted of such an offence, would be visited by a severe jmnisliment. In like manner, also, persons exposing tliemselves tcitli the %ma({- pux upon them, were liable to be indicted.
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