Tracts on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768, by command of her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias : with additional observations on epidemic small-pox, on the nature of that disease, and on the different success of the various modes of inoculation / By the Hon. Baron T. Dimsdale.

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Tracts on inoculation, written and published at St. Petersburg in the year 1768, by command of her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of all the Russias : with additional observations on epidemic small-pox, on the nature of that disease, and on the different success of the various modes of inoculation / By the Hon. Baron T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £ * 3 CHAP I. Some Account of a Journey to Ru ssia, and of the Introduction of Inoculation into that Country. IT will eafily be fuppofed that Ruffia, in common with other countries, has experienced the mortality of the fmall- pox in a very great degree. The City of St. Peterfburg in particular, though the greateft f The following precautions were obferved when I arrived in Ruflia, with a view to prevent this diftemp^r from fpreading. Where the fmal 1-pox appeared, the families were enjoined to give immediate notice to the prefident of the College of Medicine, who is always a nobleman of diftin&ion : if it happened to a perfon of rank, no reftri£tion was laid on their choice of a phy- fician, but all the family, as well as the phyfician who B attended