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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    fcarlet fever, and other peftilcntial dif- tempers, and that, by a thorough and accurate knowledge of their qualities, we can learn how to elude the dreadful mifchief produced by the moft fatal enemies of the human kind, it will b manifeft that few. philofophical invefti- gations can be propofed, which could prove of equal# importance to man. During the laft thoufand years, the fmall-pox alone has deftroyed a full tenth, and probably a larger proportion of the whole human race ! Difquifnion A full difcuffion of this fubjecl: ufeful would produce great and important advantages. A very eminent phyfician, who exprefles more doubt in regard to the propofal explained in the sketch than moft of my other correfpondents, but with great candour and good fenfe, defcribes his fentiments in the follow- ing words. For feveral days, it ap- peared a chimerical and impracticable «' defign; but the more I thought of it, and