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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    the birth of Mahomet ;? a fact which deferves very particular notice ; for if the year of the birth of Mahomet be afcertained to be alfo that of the fiege of Mecca, the Arabian M.S. cited by Dr. Reifke, and that written by Hameely, perfectly coincide; both referring the firft appearance of the Small-pox to the fame year, viz. that in which Mahomet was born; and, according to Mr. Gibbon, anno Domini 569.2 Therefore, r «¢ Mahomet, or more properly Mahommed, the only fon of Abdallah and Amina, was born at Mecca, four years after the death of Juftinian, and two months after the defeat of the Abyflinians, whofe vittory would have introduced into the Caaba the religion of the Chriftians.” Gibbon. /.c.~.198. _ 466 The fafeft zras of Abulfeda (inVit.c.i.p.2.), of Alexander, or the Greeks, 882, of Bocht Nafer, or Nabonaffer, 1316, equally lead us to the year 569. ‘The old Arabian calendar ig too dark and uncertain to fupport the Benediétines, (Art, de verifier les Dates, p. 15.) who from the day of the month and week deduce a new mode of calculation, and remove the birth of Mahomet to the year of Chrift 570, the toth of November. Yet this date would agree with the year 882 of the Greeks, which is affigned by Elmacin, (Hift. Saracen. p. 5.) “4s and