The inoculator, or, Suttonian System of inoculation.

  • Daniel Sutton
Date:
1796
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    PREFACE. r I^HE practical part of the following Work is the refult of a very extenfive pradlice, and an unremitting attention to the fmall-pox for near forty years *, founded neither on an¬ cient nor modern authorities, but deduced from obfervations of my own : not that I had neglected to confult, or held in contempt, fuch valuable relics; for in mofl inftances we find thofe venerable monuments of human wifdom * The Author was inoculated in the year 1757. The three following years he was in the daily habit of attending to the fmall-pox : from that time to about the beginning of the year 1763, he aCted as an Afliftant to an eminent Sur¬ geon and Apothecary on the confines of EfTex, where he had alfo frequent opportunities of attending the lick who had caught the difeafe in the natural way. It was under this practitioner that he firft meditated the idea of attempting an innovation on the fyftem of Inoculation, which he after¬ wards put in practice at Ingateftone, in EfTex. a 2 of
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