Medical transactions / published by the College of Physicians in London.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1813
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    insomuch that they have not been required, for some years past, to inocu- late any person with small-pox who had not previously undergone the in- oculation with the cow-pox. The Members of the Royal Col- lege have met with no occurrence in their practice of cow-pox inoculation which could operate in their minds to its disadvantage, and they beg leave particularly to notice, that they have seen no instance of obstinate erup- tions, or of new and dangerous dis- eases, which they could attribute to the introduction among mankind of this mild preventive of small-pox. The Royal College of Surgeons know of no causes which have hitherto retard- ed the adoption of vaccine inocula- tion here ; on the contrary, the prac- tice has become general within this city: and from many thousand packets of vaccine matter having been sent by the Members of the Royal College, and the Vaccine Institution here,