The new method of inoculating for the small-pox : delivered in a lecture in the University of Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February, 1781 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
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MDCCXCII [1792]
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    THE NEW METHOD O P Inoculating for the Small-Pox. GENTLEMEN, XT mult afford no fmall pleafure to a benevolent mind in the midft of a war, which daily makes fo much havoc with the human fpecies, to reflect, that the fmall-pox which once proved equally fatal to thoufands, has been checked in its ca- reer, and in a great degree fubdued by the practice of Inoculation. It is foreign to my purpofe to deliver to you the hiffory of this art, and to mark the various fteps that have attended its pro- grefs to its prefent ftate of improvement. We have yet to lament the want of unifor- mity and of equal fuccefs in the practice of it among phyficians. A great number of