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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    { 4« ] , n , . • • r. ' « - ■ r r t One circumftance however Is abfolutely heceffary for its fuccefs,* and in a former part of this Effay, 1 have already touched on the point; which is, the patronage of - r O « ( 0 , , Magiftrates.— In England and France inftitutions for the cowpox inoculation, and which Government fupports, are already fet on foot. Of fuch inftitutions however in ' f X , Germany I have not yet heard.—Should however Govern- r . _i r: • i. ^ - • j . . , ment think it worth while to engage in fuch a philanthro- pic Undertaking, and my poor endeavours could by any means he fubfervlent in the execution of fuch a plan, I 'offer ihyfelf to their fervice, and I shall not think my time or labour loft, should it be in my poVvcr, to contribute to I ) • t • • •. > ?• the welfare and happinefs of that nation, by which I have been received with fuch diftinguished marks of Attention, 1 and from the confidence which feveral have honoured me with, during the short time I have been in this country, $ I cannot but acknowledge, that it has furpaffed my molt ■, ! amodiiJ ‘ fanguine expectations. ■ *) See an account of this inftitution in London in the Neues Hannoverfches Magazin 58ftes Stuck. With