A prospect of exterminating the small-pox; being the history of the variolae vaccinae, or kine-pox, commonly called the cow-pox; as it has appeared in England / with an account of a series of inoculations performed for the kine-pox, in Massachusetts. By Benjamin Waterhouse.

  • Benjamin Waterhouse
Date:
1800
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Credit: A prospect of exterminating the small-pox; being the history of the variolae vaccinae, or kine-pox, commonly called the cow-pox; as it has appeared in England / with an account of a series of inoculations performed for the kine-pox, in Massachusetts. By Benjamin Waterhouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i «aa, ) fician, long converfant with the cafual and inoculated. fmail-pox, in the largeft city in the world. The pubs lication bore an additional weight from the opinion given me by Dr. Haycart# of the book and of its au thor ; there being no man now on the ftage more tho- oughly acquainted with the laws of contagion than Dr. Haycartu. From this publication of Dr. Woop- viti’s, was formed, ina great meafure, my fecond coms munication, which I made, like the firft, through the medium of a news-paper. It is this which follows : COW-POX, et - THE curiofity of the public has been excited by. a newly difcovered difeafe, denominated from its origin, the cow-pox, an account of which I fent you, Jaft March. By the hiftory then given, it appeared that this cow-pox pretty exattly refembles the very mildeft fmall-pox from inoculation; that none had ever died of it, whether man or beaft; and that thofe who had undergone the cow-pox, were EVER AFTER. SECURED FROM THE sMALL-Pox, be they ever fo much expofed to the effuvivm of it, or ever fo much ripe matter inferted into the Shin: by inoculation; or in other words, that thofe perfons who had undergone the local difeafe and fpecific fever occafioned by the cow-pox infeftion, are thereby rendered ever after un-. {ceptible of the Small Potts Many parents are doubt.