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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    general method of inoculation, by B. Chandlers Surgeon, at Canterbury.” This gentleman informs us, that a number of perfons of all ranks had been inoculated at Canterbury, according to the Suttonian plan, by Mr. Peale, a furgeon of eminence at Maidftone, and one of the partners of Mr. Sutton; and that in Mr. Peale’s abfence, he had been by many defired to attend, fo that by thefe opportunities, and by frequent converfations with Mr. Peale, he was enabled to carry the inveftigation of the new prattice farther than it had been done by Drs. Baker and Glafs. Nay, he made trials of it upon great numbers at Chilham, and fays his patients, in every ftage of the Small- pox, were “ exact copies of Mr. Peale’s pa- tients.” His method of condudting the pro- cefs of inoculation, and which‘he confiders as being effentially the fame with that of Mr. Sutton, is thus defcribed: —‘“ My patients have