Some observations on the treatment of smallpox / by Alexander Stewart.

  • Stewart, Alexander, A.B.
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[©1829?]
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Credit: Some observations on the treatment of smallpox / by Alexander Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (2J SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SMALiIi POX. BY ALEXANDER STEWART, A. B. T. C. D. ASSISTANT SURGEON—2nd DRAGOONS. AMONGST the various lights that are daily thrown upon Medical Science, whether new discoveries, or the revival of old practice, few perhaps have been more permanent or successful, than Vaccination on Small Pox—it is true, various circum- stances may have occurred partially to obscure it, when with- out any known cause (except Idiocyncrasy) it has not prevent- ed the subsequent attack, nor fatal effects of Small Pox, a case of which occurred in a child previously Vaccinated by me, successfully and satisfactorily, at 15 months old, on the 15th December, 1824. Besides this circumstance, there are pre- judices amongst many people, of different grades in Society, which prevent them from flying to this almost certain preven- tative—whether they choose, as I have known some to do, to leave it to Providence—whether they consider Vaccination as some do, an unwarrantable interference with Providence, or as others prefer Inoculation. Under all those circumstances, and having seen in a Paper some little time back, an account of its fatal ravages in England, and having known the visita- tK)ns, that it some times brings in different parts of the United Kmgdom, I feel called on to lay before you a method, I have successfully made use of, and which has also been practised