Observations on the cow-pock / By John Coakley Lettsom.

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the cow-pock / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * ( V ) PREFACE. INDIVIDUALS, in the intercourfe of fociety,. however limited the circle may be, gradually form mutual attachments, which beget mu- tual confidence; and hence the opinions of one perfon determine- thofe of another; a fentiment that encourages me to write upon a fubjedt, although anticipated by feveral dif- tinguifhed authors, under the perfuafion, that my teftimony may have fome influence with- in the periphery of my affociates and parti- cular friends; fome of whom, refident in diffe- rent parts of the world, have requefted my opinion refpedting the inoculation of the Cow- pock, with fome account of the inflitutions eftablithed in this country for promoting the general practice of it; and I hope their lau- dable withes will be gratified by the perufal of the fubfequent obfervations, a 3 If