Observations on the causes of the prevalence of smallpox, and on the means of preventing the dissemination of that disease / [Alexander Monro].

  • Alexander Monro
Date:
1826]
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Credit: Observations on the causes of the prevalence of smallpox, and on the means of preventing the dissemination of that disease / [Alexander Monro]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    words upon this last and most interesting branch of the subject are too important to be omitted :—“ That vaccination has the strongest claims upon the confidence of medical men, and on national support; and that nothing further is to be desired in the way of protection against smallpox, than a stricter atten¬ tion^ on the part of practitioners in the country, to the diffu¬ sion of good and genuine vaccine lymph, and perhaps some increased facilities, on the part of government, to the procur¬ ing lymph from large towns'', where alone it can be obtained in that state of purity and perfection which is essential to the safety of the individual in after life? \ v 4 v
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