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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    that manner. The time will come perhaps when the Sutton family will generoufly dif clofe to the world their juftly fingular, noble, and ineftimable practice of indeulation.” # ~ This Reverend Author likewife complains of the perfecution of his patron, in the fol- lowing manner :—“ About the beginning of laft fummer, the Small-pox broke out in a moft violent manner at Chelmsford, in Effex, {weeping off every week many of the inha- bitants.’ This was a fine opportunity for Mr. Sutton’s enemies to furmife, invent, and pro- pagate what calumnies they pleafed ; efpecially as he fometimes came on market-days to treat with people, who were inclined to be inocu- lated. If any perfon chanced to accompany * How far Mr. Sutton has made the amende honorable, will be fhown, when we examine his late publication, entitled, “ The Inoculator, or the Suttonian fyftem of inoculation fully fet forth, See by D. Sutton, Surgeon, who introduced the new method of inoculation into pradiice in the year 1763.” him