A prospect of exterminating the small pox : part II, being a continuation of a narrative of facts concerning the progress of the new inoculation in America : together with Practical observations on the local appearance, symptoms, and mode oftreating the variola vaccina, or kine pock : including some letters to the author, from distinguished characters, on the subject of this benign remedy : now passing with a rapid step through all ranks of society in Europe and America / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
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A prospect of exterminating the small pox : part II, being a continuation of a narrative of facts concerning the progress of the new inoculation in America : together with Practical observations on the local appearance, symptoms, and mode oftreating the variola vaccina, or kine pock : including some letters to the author, from distinguished characters, on the subject of this benign remedy : now passing with a rapid step through all ranks of society in Europe and America / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Cambridge [Mass.] : Printed for the author, at the University Press, by William Hilliard, 1802 [i.e. 1803?]

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139 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

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J. B. Blake's Benjamin Waterhouse and the introduction of vaccination [1957] states that, though dated 1802 on the title page, this work actually appeared about Feb. 1, 1803
[Part I] published in Cambridge, Mass., in 1800
Includes correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Waterhouse (p. 22-34)
Appendix. Biographical account of Dr. Jenner: p. [135]-139
Film 633 reel 101 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 101, no. 2013).

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 2013
Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) 5424
Shaw & Shoemaker 3499

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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