Tracts on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768, by command of her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias : with additional observations on epidemic small-pox, on the nature of that disease, and on the different success of the various modes of inoculation / By the Hon. Baron T. Dimsdale.

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Tracts on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768, by command of her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias : with additional observations on epidemic small-pox, on the nature of that disease, and on the different success of the various modes of inoculation / By the Hon. Baron T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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