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.

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    [ 45 ] be remedied ; which by the inoculation of the cowpox will certainly be effected, on account of its producing few or no eruptions. u g iu Here I finish my remarhs on the comparative merits of the vaccine and variolous inoculation: how far I have fucceeded in my endeavours to perfuade the public in favour of the former, a very short time will decide. From the manner in which they have hitherto received it, I dare flatter myfelf that the period is not far diftant, when it will entirely fuperfede the fmallpox inoculation. — We have fcen the rapid progrefs of it in England. Till the beginning of this laft summer only 5000 perfons had been inoculated*) but in Auguft the number had amounted to 15000 **). The practice of this inoculation is now no longer confined to Britain, but has been introduced into feveral parts of the Continent. In Germany in particular this inquiry has been profecuted with great ardour. Drs. StpcOMEyer and .' *) Neues Hannoverfches Magazin 4-3^es Stuck. • - »-v. - — ' t| . • 1 . . • f * • * r **) Do. 7iftes Stuck. li; Baeliiorn