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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    By the firft Britifh medical writers, which were thofe of the thirteenth century, the Small-pox is very generally noticed: and from the days of John of Gaddefden, who ordered with fearlet cloth, as the bett cure, to thofe of the immortal Sydenham, whole judicious treatment of the Small-pox has been but little improved, phyficians have beftowed the utmoft attention on this important difeafe. * A fon of king Edward the Firft or Second, having the Small-pox, was, by John’s direction, wrapped in fcarlet, and the bed covered with the fame colour, which he fays, ** 6f bona cura,’ SECTION If