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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    occaflon a fcvere difeafe in die inoculated final]pox, when expofure to the infection is unavoidable, experience warrants us to prefer the cowpox inoculation to that of the fmall pox. We have feen the happy fuccefs of the cafe above related, in which Dr. Jenner inoculated a child that the day before has fickened for the measles : lince that period it has been proved that the cowpox is equally harmlefs under other unfavourable conditions. In die London inoculation hospital, there is no choice of patients, and perfons of all ages and different conftitutions are inoculated. *) Drs. Stro- meyer and Ballhorn of Hannover inform us that they have inoculated healthy and unhealthy fubjects, children and adults, in every condition of life. And yet a fevere difeafe lias never followed the inoculation of the cowpox.**) ' *' h ; r > m > orb *1 )/; JjrtiiihkLi siiriy/ lly-i' : , ? Even in families where children labour under teething, meafels, or any other disorders, if circumltances should require it, the cowpox inoculation may be performed on *) Neues Hannoverfches Magazin 43ftes Stiick. **) Do. 68ttes Stiick- one