The history of the inoculation of the small-pox in Great Britain; comprehending a review of all the publications on the subject: with an experimental inquiry into the relative advantages of every measure which has been deemed necessary in the process of inoculation / By William Woodville ... In two volumes.

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The history of the inoculation of the small-pox in Great Britain; comprehending a review of all the publications on the subject: with an experimental inquiry into the relative advantages of every measure which has been deemed necessary in the process of inoculation / By William Woodville ... In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    heel 0, AS haa 17 Of the progrefs and practice of inoculation from the yeat 1722 until the eflablithment of the Inoculation Hofpital in London in 1746, Ded $3 Progrefs of inoculation during the year 1723—its | fuccefs ftated—unfortunate cafes related—Dr. “furin’s — report of them—Number of perfons inoculated in the | year 1724——T he practice introduced a fecond time inta | the Royal Family—Account of the fuccefs of inoculation during the years 1725 and 1726—during 1727 and -1728—Number of perfons inoculated in Britain during the firft eight years of that practice—Average number of deaths under inoculation compared with thofe occafioned by the cafual Small-pox—Procefs of inoculation ufually adopted at this time—Conclufions in favour of inoculation by Dr. fFurin, combated by Mr. Howgrave and Mr. Ifaac Maffey—Introduction of inoculation into Ireland, Scot- land, and Hanover—Decline of the practice in England. “Aninguiry into the advantages received by the firft eight | years