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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    from it. And as fomething wrong in the habit may often juftly be fufpected, when the pun@tures do not inflame fo much as ufual, I give the pills, in fuch cafes, fome- what more freely. This is no new obferva- tion ; it has often been experienced in the old inoculation, that thofe patients had the difeafe moft favourably, whofe inoculated arms dif- covered an earlier inflammation, a more con- fiderable fwelling, and a broader difk of fur- rounding rednefs. With children, Glauber’s falt, or Sena tea, and with infants, a little manna will very well fupply the place of the pills. Ido not pretend they have any fpecific powers; indeed, I think they have not: but they are more commodioully carried about, and as eafily taken as any other form of medicine. I have Boerhaave’s fanction for their ufe, and a ftrong probability of their being the fame as Mr. Sutton’s: I have 2A 2 | always