Letters and essays on the small-pox and inoculation, the measles, the dry belly-ache, the yellow, and remitting, and intermitting fevers of the West Indies. To which are added, thoughts on the hydrocephalus internus, and observations on hydatides in the heads of cattle / By different practioners [John Quier, Thomas Fraser, John Hume, George Monro, Ambrose Dawson, Dr. Dowdeswell. Addressed (except Hume's essay) to D. Monro and editied by him].

Date:
1778
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Credit: Letters and essays on the small-pox and inoculation, the measles, the dry belly-ache, the yellow, and remitting, and intermitting fevers of the West Indies. To which are added, thoughts on the hydrocephalus internus, and observations on hydatides in the heads of cattle / By different practioners [John Quier, Thomas Fraser, John Hume, George Monro, Ambrose Dawson, Dr. Dowdeswell. Addressed (except Hume's essay) to D. Monro and editied by him]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    time flie expectorated copioufly, and breathed with freedom. She lived now with tolerable eafe, and had a chance of protrading her life for fome time; but about fix months after the inoculation, growing impatient, fhe eagerly folicited leave to go to the low lands, which her mafter, unable to refill her entreaties, notwithlland- ing the confequences were fully re- prefented to him, at length granted her. After this fhe found her health grow worfe daily, and attempted to return home; but as fhe was travel¬ ling in the broiling heat of the fun, in the forenoon, expired on the road. I fhall now acquaint you with the circumftances of three cafes, which proved fatal, where I was compelled to inoculate againft my judgement and my will, partly through the ap¬ parent impollibility of the patient’s efcaping the contagion in the natural way of infection, and partly through