A discourse upon vaccination, or kine-pock inoculation : with remarks upon the occasional prevalence of the small-pox, and the measures necessary to prevent it / by Valentine Seaman, M.D.

  • Valentine Seaman
Date:
1816
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Credit: A discourse upon vaccination, or kine-pock inoculation : with remarks upon the occasional prevalence of the small-pox, and the measures necessary to prevent it / by Valentine Seaman, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those who might carelessly suffer their pa- tients to believe themselves secure : without having carefully observed the progress of their disease through all its stages .' [2. Introduction of Vaccination into New-York, with early evidences of its antivariolous powers.—N. York Kine-Vock In- stitution.] HAVING obtained infection, I succeeded on the 22nd of 5th mo. l80J, in communicat- ing the kine-pock to several persons in this city. The complaint commencing with a slightly inflamed spot, gradually increased to a circular pustule, elevated at its edges and depressed in the centre, containing a trans- parent watery fluid, slowly oozing out ajL punctures made in it, and finally terminating in a hard dark coloured scab; all through the various stages, so exactly corresponding with the accurate descriptions and delineations given by the most attentive writers, left no doubt on my mind of its being the genuine vaccine disease.—(See Report in Med. Rep. vol. 5.) From them a supply of infection was con- tinued for some weeks, and until eighteen per-
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