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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    and not to the Practice’s declining and growing into Difcredit, is plain from this prefent Year, in which we have had already a confiderable Num¬ ber of Perfons who have undergone this Operacidn, from the Allarm, as 1 fuppofe, occafioned by the Small Pox: in the natural Way, which has been for fome Time very mortal And the fame Remark may be made with Re¬ gard to Towns in the Country, where fcarce any Perfon has ventur’d upon Inoculation, unlefs when the natural Small Pox has made a great Ravage in the Neighbourhood; fo much more are we influenc’d by our Fears of a prefent Danger, than, by the Appro- henfion of a remote One. For other- wife, I fuppofe, it would be more prudent to undergo Inoculation at a Time, when the natural Small Pox is the moil favourable, than in a Seafon, when either from the Ccnflitution of the Air, or the Species or Degree of Infection, which then prevails, the Biftemper is more than ufually epide- B mi e at