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Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock: including an account of the inoculation of the village of Lowther / [Robert John Thornton].

  • Robert John Thornton
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock: including an account of the inoculation of the village of Lowther / [Robert John Thornton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    = and alfo that of a fecond, made on the fon of Dre Keith, which immediately followed, was foon ge- nerally known in London, and confequently com- municated to the different parts of the kingdom. | for an art fo new and interefting to the public, could mot fail to excite the attention of people of all ranks, and more efpecially thofe of the medical profefion, on whofe concurrent opinions the eftablifhment of this fo- reign practice here was ultimately to depends However, though thefe profperous inftantces of moculation had hitherto confirmed the reports of its fuccefs at Conftantinople; and though the praec- tice had been introduced among the Englifh by a woman who; from her brilliant accomplifhments, mafculine underftanding, and, great influence in the fafhionable cireles, was, above all others, moft ikely to be followed as an example in the metro+ polis; yet this valuable art was ftill regarded with a {fufpicious caution, and feveral months elapfed bes. fore a third trial of it was made in London. Even four months after the inoculation of Mifs. Wortley, this practice was ftill viewed in fuch a dubious light, that it was determined that feveral culprits, then in Newgate, who had forfeited their lives to the laws of their country, fhould, on fub« mitting to be inoculated, receive full pardon by the royal perogative: a propofition which is faid by fome to have been fuggefted by the College of Phyficians to' their Royal Highneffes the Prince and Princefs of Wales; but Sir Hans Sloane’ ftates it to
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