An account of the varioloid epidemic, which has lately prevailed in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland : with observations on the identity of chicken-pox with modified small-pox : in a letter to Sir James M'Grigor / by John Thomson.

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1824
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Credit: An account of the varioloid epidemic, which has lately prevailed in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland : with observations on the identity of chicken-pox with modified small-pox : in a letter to Sir James M'Grigor / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    the importance of the subject to which the iuves tigation relates. In submitting to your judgment the general re- sults of the information I have been able to acquire respecting varioloid diseases, I shall state to you, 1st, The results of my own observation of the present epidemic; 2dly, Those contained in the communications relative to this disease, which have been made to me by practitioners who have had opportunities of seeing it in other parts of the country; and to these I shall add, Zdly, Some proofs which my hypothesis seems to receive from the past history of small-pox, judging, as I do, of that history by the imperfect view which my other avocations have allowed me to take of it, during the few months that my attention has been par- ticularly directed to the investigation of this sub- ject.