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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    tality proportionally great.© There can be no doubt, therefore, that the variolous contagion, on firft fpreading in this country, produced tion againt Cortes. Torribio affirms, that one half of the people in the provinces vifited with this diftemper, died. The Small-pox was not introduced into Peru for feveral years after the invafion of the Spaniards; but there too that diftemper proved very fatal to the natives. Garcia Origen. p, 88. cited in Robert/on’s Hiftory of America. vol. iii. p. 400. About fifty years after the difcovery of Peru, the Small-pox was carried over from Europe to America, by way of Cartha- gena, when it over-ran the continent of the new world, and deftroyed upwards of 100,000 Indians in the fingle province of Quito, This account was found by M. La Condamine, in an ancient M.S. preferved in the cathedral of that city. This author alfo obferves, that in the Portuguefe fettlements border- dering upon the river Amazons, the Small-pox is fatal to all the natives, i.e, original Americans. See his Mem. fur Pinoc. p. 61. © The Small-pox was firft introduced into the frozen region of Greenland in 1733; when the mortality of this difeafe was fo great, that it almoft depopulated the whole country, See Crantz’s Hift. of Greenland, vol. i. p. 336. Even fo lately as the year 1793, when the Small-pox was conveyed to the Ifle of France, in the Eaft Indies, by a Dutch Ship, 5400 perfons perifhed there by this diftemper in fix weeks. very @