The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation ... / by Daniel Sutton.

  • Sutton, Daniel, 1735-1819.
Date:
1796
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    Zealous in the caule of human prcfervatlon in general, and willing particularly to extricate the pradtice of inoculation from that feries of procefs which I conceived to be redundant, and foreign to the tme purpofe, it would have been idle in me to have attempted the difcovery of a more certain, or a more fuccefsful fyftem of pradtice, on foundations which I tlrongly fuf- pedl'ed to be fallacious : it would have been to purfue a phantom in expedlation of finding a fubfiance, 'ImpretTed with thefe opinions, I was natu- rally led to revolve the fubjedl in Iny mind, and to confider the difeafe in a new point of view. In order to this, many circumfiiances, from time to time, had prefcnted themfelves, and contri- 'buted to pave my way for the clearer ground- work whereon to build a new fuperftrudlure of ' pfadlice. The difficulty which prevailed amongfi; thcdold pradtitioncrs, of afccrtaining who were favorable or unfavorable fubjedts for inoculation from external appearances; from the ftate and condition