An account of the success of inoculating the small pox in Great Britain, for the year 1724. With a comparison, between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small pox / By James Jurin.

  • Jurin, James, 1684-1750.
Date:
[1725]
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Credit: An account of the success of inoculating the small pox in Great Britain, for the year 1724. With a comparison, between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small pox / By James Jurin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cannot but wonder, that I, who (as a Surgeon) can have no Intered in fpeaking in Favour of Inoculation, (being I never inoculated any,) fhould without any Caufe given, be called upon in a Manner that attaints my Honour and Veracity ; and that Mr. Howgrave fhould think himfelf autho¬ riz’d thus to vilify and ahufe me in Print, for having dated and repre- fenced my Daughter’s Cafe, honk fide, in fuch Manner as it has appear’d to me, and to very many of the Faculty, and other curious and candid Per- fans, who have cendantly attended and frequently vifited her, both when flie was inoculated for the Small Pox, and fmce her Recovery of that Di- demper, The Singularity of her Cafe having excited theCuriofity of Num¬ bers, as well of thofe who, having been Eye-Witnedes of what had ap¬ pear’d on her during her Confine¬ ment after the Inoculation, did ac¬ ted that die had had no Small Pox then, or any thing like it, as of thofe who had receiv’d for Truth a fabulous Story fpread abroad, and recorded in D % Dr.