A treatise on the cow-pox; containing ... the principal facts in the history of that disease, etc / [George Bell].

  • Bell, George
Date:
1815
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Credit: A treatise on the cow-pox; containing ... the principal facts in the history of that disease, etc / [George Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is often injurious to beauty, by the permanent pits and scars which it leaves on the face: it often destroys the sight, by the inflammation and scales which it induces on the eyes; and it sometimes terminates in swell- ings and ulcers, by which the strongest constitutions are gradually undermined, and ultimately ruined. Inoculation has, indeed, rendered the Small-pox much less fatal; but even inoculated Small-pox is frequently at- tended with fever, and with other alarming symptoms. It is this circum- stance which has prevented the practice of inoculation for the Small-pox from becoming general among the lower classes of the people; and there is cause to believe, that the practice of partial inoculation, though beneficial to the in-