Letters on the kine pox : and a variety of other medical subjects / written by Dr. B. L. Oliver ... and Dr. William Currie.

  • Oliver, B. L., 1760-1835.
Date:
1802
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    The fame experiment has been repeated at Ipfwich, by Drs. Manning and Fifher, who have inoculated many with the vaccine matter, and with a like refult. The latter phyfician, has the fulleft confidence in the fecurity which the vaccine difeafe affords, againft taking the fmall pox. Truth, however, requires, it mould be mention- ed, that not on all on whom Dr. Afpin- wall tried the above experiments, was the fame favorable refult. A few became in- fecled with the fmall-pox, but thofe per- fons came from a diftance, and it was not known by whom they had been inoculated —whether the matter had been genuine vaccine matter—or if the inoculation had properly taken effeft. Of courfe, no great confidence can be placed in the experiment. Some patients, even after having been in- oculated by Dr. Waterhoufe, did not take the difeafe. This the Dr. afcribed to the matter having loft its virtue from age. This alfo occafioned, probably, fome fai- lures in Marblehead. But fhall we reje£i the inoculation of the fmall-pox, becaufe the like effeft or difappointment. has alfo refulted, and from the fame caufe ? The phyficians here place much confidence in the cow-pox, as a preventative of the fmall-pox. It feems to be generally thought however, that we are fcarcely poflHfed of all the diagnoflic ligns, neceffary for af- certaining when the fyftem is fecured from the fmall-pox by the vaccine difeafe. And I am informed, that the like doubts opprefs