Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence Relative to Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, and Natural History (Volume 5) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1802. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... article I. Narrative of Facts concerning the Inoculation of the Kine-pock: Communicated to the Editors by BexJamin Waterhouse, M. D. Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, Academy of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Medical, and Royal Medical Society London, Physical and Literary Society at Manchester, Philosophical and Literary Society at Bath, and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic in the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts. year before last I published a tract, entitled, "A Prospect of exterminating the Small-Pox; being the History of tlie Variola Vaccina, or Kine-Pox; as it appeared in England; with an Account of a Series of Inoculations performed in Massachusetts: " And this communication is meant to convey to the public a few more particulars on that subject. It was said in the pamphlet, that on receiving the vaccine virus from Dr. Hayoarth, I commenced the experiment ort my own children, four of whom, with three of my domestics, passed regularly through the distemper; and that they soon after went into the licensed small-pox hospital in this neighbour hood, and all seven of them were inoculated by Dr. Aspinwaji, with the matter of the small-pox, but without the least trait of infection. It was also there mentioned, that by the 1st of September I had inoculated about fifty persons, of different ages, sexes and conditions. By this time the public attention was thoroughly excited, and if we may judge by the very numerous letters I received from all parts of New-England, requesting further information, as well as a supply of matter for carrying on the inoculation, we must conclude that there never was any thing in Vol. V. 3 B the medical annals of our country tnat ever excited half tker speculation. Nor will this appear extraordinary to t...