Familiar observations on the inoculation of the cowpox as now very generally introduced in Great Britain ... with a view to the final extermination of the small pox / by Alexander Herman MacDonald.

  • MacDonald, Alexander Herman, 1774-
Date:
1800
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Credit: Familiar observations on the inoculation of the cowpox as now very generally introduced in Great Britain ... with a view to the final extermination of the small pox / by Alexander Herman MacDonald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and I am fine that the cowpox will be found a difeafe, not fo uncommon as perhaps it is fuppofed to be. Jo tl,(j 0.:ii ,:i : ii f, : .jii'ofr HO bodjiJOj yhr?‘) dji In France likewife the inoculation of the cowpox is carried on with great fuccefs. Dr. Woodville is gone on purpofe from England to Pan's, to perform the inoculations. From Holland a Phylician has been sent to Paris, to examine the refults of the experiments, which ate there inftituted, no doubt with the intention of introducing it in that country. But whether it was necelfary to fend fo far as Paris to examine the cowpox, I am inclined to fuspectj hnce the province of Holland ahnoh conlilts of dairy farms, and if proper inquiries were made, it is not improbable, but the cowpox would be found there alfo. . ii eon. »iic > ovr.il hiv > A iloirlw ov ‘)hu.;ioo oih mcl m According to our late accounts, this discovery lia§ already croffed the Atlantic and is now liliewife practifed in America. In short it is to be hoped, that the joint labours of thofe l * O ' * * ’ medical men who have taken a ferious interelt in this molt ufeful inquiry, will foon meet their juft reward. One