Familiar observations on the inoculation of the cowpox as now very generally introduced in Great Britain ... with a view to the final extermination of the small pox / by Alexander Herman MacDonald.

  • MacDonald, Alexander Herman, 1774-
Date:
1800
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Credit: Familiar observations on the inoculation of the cowpox as now very generally introduced in Great Britain ... with a view to the final extermination of the small pox / by Alexander Herman MacDonald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Whig, Mr. Downe Surgeon, at Bridport, the B.evd. Mr. Smith of Wendover, and Mr. Gifford Surgeon at Gillingham near Shaftshury. The mode in which Dr. Fearfon and his correfpondents profecuted their inquiries was very much fame with that of Dr. Jenner, and therefore I shall not tire my reader by repeating it, but shall content my felf with enumerating the principal refults; which are as follows: That perfons who have undergone the cowpox infection either accidentally, or by the inoculations are thereby rendered unfufceptible of the variolous infection; that the difeafe is not contagious; that the febrile fymptoms are in general very slight; that the difeafe never proved fatal; that it bears a great refemblance to the fmall pox; that there is no difference in the effects of the matter, from the firft human fubject infected from the brute animal, or from the matter generated fucceffively in the 2d, 3d, 4th, or 5t]l human creature from the origin in the brute; that no