The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation, fully set forth in a plain and familiar manner / by Daniel Sutton.

Date:
1796
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Credit: The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation, fully set forth in a plain and familiar manner / by Daniel Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Zealous in the caufe of human preservation in general, and willing particularly to extricate the practice of inoculation from that feries of procefs which I conceived to be redundant, and foreign to the true purpofe, it would have been idle in me to have attempted the difcovery of a. more certain, or a more fuccefsful fyftem of practice, on foundations which I ftrongly fuf- pected to be fallacious : it would have been to purfue a phantom in expectation of finding a iubflance. ImprefTed with thefc opinions, I was natu- rally led to revolve the'fubject in my mind, and to eonfider the difeafe in a new point of view. In order to this, many circumftances, from time to time, had prclented -themfelves, and contri- buted to pave my way forthe clearer ground- work whereon .to build a new fuperflruclure of praclice. The difficulty which prevailed amongft the-old pradlilioners, of afcertaining who were favorable or unfavorable Subjects for inoculation from external appearances; from the {late and condition
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