Some remarks upon Dr. Wagstaff's Letter against inoculating the small-pox. In a letter to himself, defending that practice ... With an appendix, in favour of inoculation / by F. Slare.

Williams, Perrott, 1680-1746

Date:: 1725

Credit: Some remarks upon Dr. Wagstaff's Letter against inoculating the small-pox. In a letter to himself, defending that practice ... With an appendix, in favour of inoculation / by F. Slare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$X 3° J Prince to be of a ftrong, hail, fanguine Conftitution, that his Puftules came out the 8th Day after the Matter was ingrafted, they were very large, but diftind; that he was chearful and pleafant all the while without any confiderable Pain, or Sicknefs, or Headach, or any pther bad Symptoms, and that in a Month’s Time he went abroad, and din’d publickly. It is alfovery remarkable,,that Baron Schul- lenberg, one of the great Minifters of State at Hanover,, had Eight of his Children, from One to Thirteen Years Old, inoculated with .the fame Matter that was taken from the Royal Prince’s Puftules, and that every one of them recover’d and- did very iwell. i , .. , , ' ..This laft Year 1724, was. printed, at Hanover, a fmall Trad by J. E. Wre- den Profeftor of Surgery, about Inoculation. He dedicates the Book to his Royal Highnefs Prince Frederick upon his Recovery out of .the Small-Pox, to the great Joy of all their Country. He gives Praifes to Almighty God for that gracious Providence, in fending fuch a falutiferous Remedy for the Good and . Confervation of Mankind. He feems, by his writing, not to envy, but to extol the Happinefs and good Fortune of the famous ■ Englijh Surgeon Mr. Maitland.\ for having been the Inftrument of conveying this very . noble$