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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    [ >7 ] no confequential difeafe which could he attributed to the cowpox has been observed, nor any difeafe excited, to which there previously exilted a difpolition, nor, lafily, that it has ever been discovered to produce a predispofition to peculiar difeafes. iV / -.1 . j: Dr. Pearfon concludes his treatife with ftating a fet of queries which are intended to ferve as a guide for medical men in the acquilftion of future facts upon this important fubject. ibir ;:.cl .a Cl 'ibrllien Dr. Woodville next has prefented the public with a candid and accurate account of the effects of two hundred cafes, in which inoculation was performed with the cow- pox ; and the result of these trials has confirmed what was formerly advanced by Drs. Jenner and Pearfon. nr. ' h i ! -i cc j< ri . nr:c U tTOV9V.rorI oioH After giving a short detail of thefe 200 cafes Dr. Wood- ville has fubjoined a table mentioning the names and ages of the patients inoculated; the number of days during C which