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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    confiderable time in the palm of the hand.. We are alfo informed, that the inhabitants of die! Highlands of Scotland,* for many ages, have had ‘recourfe to a fpecies of inoculation, performed by tying worfted threads, moiftened with variolous matter, round the wrifts of their children. This vulgar or domeftic cuftom of inoculating the Small-pox likewife prevailed in many other parts of Europe, and in various countries of Afia and Africa; and, what is highly curious, in feveral of thefe diftant nations, the practice was,-as in Wales, termed buying the Small- pox. For it was fuperftitioufly imagined, that inoculation would not produce the proper effect unlefs the perfon from whom the variolous matter was taken; received a piece’of money, or fome other article in exchange for it, from © See Monro on Inoculation in Séotland. 5 thofe