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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    prepared for the prefs; and as it involves numerous facts and experiments, a confider- able time will be required before it can be properly fubmitted to the public. In the prefent volume I have endeavoured to make the reader acquainted with all * that has been written re{fpeCting the practice of inoculation, and more particularly with fuch occurrences and obfervations as feemed fucceflively inftrumental towards its improve- ment. From a defire of executing this part of the work with fidelity and impartiality, I have thought it right, that each author fhould be judged of by his own words ; a plan which may have occafionally led me into repetitions; but which feemed indifpenfable, as I wifhed to avoid the ftill greater fault of mifreprefen- tation. * It is to be underftood, that I here fpeak of the practice of inoculation in Britain.—With feveral fcarce books I have ‘been obligingly fupplied by Dr. Sims, the learned Prefident of the Medical Society of London. CONTENTS.