An account of the success of inoculating the small pox in Great Britain, for the year 1724. With a comparison, between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small pox / By James Jurin.

  • James Jurin
Date:
[1725]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the success of inoculating the small pox in Great Britain, for the year 1724. With a comparison, between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small pox / By James Jurin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    arid not to the Pradice’s declining and growing into Difcredit, is plain from this prefcnt Year, in which we have had already a confiderable Num¬ ber of Perfons who have undergone this Operation, frorli the All arm , as I fuppofe, occafioned by the Small Pok in the natural Way, which has been for fome Time very mortal. And the fame Remark may be made with Re¬ gard to Towns in the Country, where fcarce any Perfon has ventur’d upod tnoculation, unlefs when the natural Small Pox has made a great Ravage' in the Neighbourhood ,• fo 'much more’ are we influenc’d by our Feats of a prefent Danger, than by the Appre- hcnfion of a remote One. For other- wife, i fuppofe, ic would be more prudent to undergo Inoculation at a Time, when the natural Small Pox is the moft favourable, than in a Seafon^ K when either from the ConflitUtion of the Air, or the Species or Degree of infedion, which then prevails, the Diftemper is more than ufually epide-
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