A treatise on the cow-pox; containing an enumeration of the principal facts in the history of that disease, the method of communicating the infection by inoculation; and the means of distinguishing between the genuine and spurious cow-pox ... / by George Bell.

  • Bell, George.
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the cow-pox; containing an enumeration of the principal facts in the history of that disease, the method of communicating the infection by inoculation; and the means of distinguishing between the genuine and spurious cow-pox ... / by George Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and almoft in every fituation, if it be hot during the continuance of a contagious or fome other dangerous difeafe. Whereas, it is unfafe to inoculate a child with Small-pox till the fourth or fifth month ; fo that, previous to this age, children are daily expofed to the danger of fuffering by the natural Small-pox. This danger is obviated by the introdu@ion of the Cow- -pox, which, from this circumftance, as wellas from many others, has acqui- red a decided preference to the inocu- lation of the Small-pox. [2 WERE