An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox : and proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth.
- John Haygarth
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox : and proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth. 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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![' tvf Society. of the di{lri(5l, below named, «'is focn as'they hear a frefli faniily is infedlcd. It is with the fmeereu; fatlsf-uftion we ob- f * ferve, that onr example has excited a like beneficent fpirit toward the poor inhabitants of other large lowiis. In Leeds they had a general inoculation in the Ipring of lySi, . and propofed another in 1782; in Liverpool a gcntral inoculation was fuccefsfully exe- cuted in the autumn of 1781,‘ and another in the fpring of 1782, and they have rdolv- 1 edon a general inoculation there twice every year. Such has been the fuccefs that has attended thefc exertions at Chefter, Leeds, and Liverpool, that rhe Royal College of Phyficians at Edinburgh have appointed a i* committee to inquire into their mode of J conduding the gratis inoculation of the poor, iin order to diffufe the benefit of this falutary :arc among all ranks in the metropolis, and :probably other large towns of Scotland. And fit may be rcafonably expeffed that the fame : benevolent dif]:)oruion v/hich has promoted (general inoculation in thefe places, will ere long be employed to check the progrefs of -the natural diftemper, an important objedc which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2230986x_0223.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
