The history of the inoculation of the small-pox in Great Britain; comprehending a review of all the publications on the subject: with an experimental inquiry into the relative advantages of every measure which has been deemed necessary in the process of inoculation / By William Woodville ... In two volumes.

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The history of the inoculation of the small-pox in Great Britain; comprehending a review of all the publications on the subject: with an experimental inquiry into the relative advantages of every measure which has been deemed necessary in the process of inoculation / By William Woodville ... In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the open air, which I had learned from others, I firft dire&ted the mercurial and antimonial medicine, and the laxative courfe in the erup- tive ftate.”— The Baron’s experience of the new plan of inoculation, previoufly to his publication of it, was only formed on two years practice ; yet in that time his obfervations had been made with fuch accurate difcrimination, and his opinions were fo juftly founded, that in the fix fucceeding editions of his work, he never found occafion to introduce the leaft altera- - tion. | Several other tracts upon inoculation were publifhed before the year 1768; but the confideration of thefe I have referved for the fecond volume. END OF VOL. I. ' ERRATA, Page 194, for Whitaker, read Nettleton. Page 255, line 2, after publifhed, read,“ 4 Difuafive againft inoculating, &c.