Volume 1

A sketch of a plan to exterminate the casual small-pox from Great Britain, and to introduce general inoculation : to which is added, a correspondence on the nature of variolous contagion, with Mr. Dawson [et al.] and on the best means of preventing the small-pox, and promoting inoculation at Geneva, with the magistrates of the Republick.

  • Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.
Date:
1793
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Credit: A sketch of a plan to exterminate the casual small-pox from Great Britain, and to introduce general inoculation : to which is added, a correspondence on the nature of variolous contagion, with Mr. Dawson [et al.] and on the best means of preventing the small-pox, and promoting inoculation at Geneva, with the magistrates of the Republick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which his attention is requested, on a fubject which appears to be of the higheft importance to mankind. The queftion, on which the propriety of the propofed regulations depends, is to be examined and determined, upon rational and philofophical principles. Its con- federation by no means belongs, ex- clusively, to the medical profeffion. Gentlemen, whofe education and talents have led them to the ftudy of natural philofophy, are completely prepared to comprehend, and to decide upon the propriety of the propofed meafures. Effluvia. A new theory, or even a folitary new fact in chemiltry, aftronomy, &c. at- j tracts the general attention of philofo- phers through Europe, though its uti- lity to mankind cannot be difcerned. At a time when the ftudy of nature defervedly engages the thoughts of men endowed with the mod comprehenfive knowledge and keeneft penetration, the qualities of effluvia may, upon the fame principle.