The London Medical and Physical Journal, Volum 5

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J. Souter, 1801
 

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Side 491 - firft from the Cow, and finally from one human being to another. I anxioufly waited fome time for an opportunity of putting this theory to the teft. At length the period arrived. The firft experiment was made upon a lad of the name of Phipps, in whofe arm a little Vaccine
Side 491 - thus excited on the boy's arm, bore to variolous inoculation, yet as the indifpofition attending it was barely perceptible, I could fcarcely perfuade myfelf the patient was fecure from the Small-pox. However, on his being inoculated fome months afterwards, it proved that he was fecure. This cafe infpired me with confidence; and as foon as I could again
Side 492 - probably be within compafs if I fay, thoufands are ready to follow their example; for the fcope that this inoculation has now taken is immenfe. An hundred thoufand perfons, upon the fmalleft computation» have been inoculated in thefe realms. The numbers who have partaken of its benefits throughout Europe^ and other parts of the globe, are incalculable; and it
Side 452 - to prevent our fuccefs. A late author,* in defcribing the extraordinary mortification of a devotee, fays, "The compleat term of his firft penance being expired, the next he undertook was to hold his hands, locked in each other, over his head, the fingers of one hand dividing thofe of the other, for the fame fpace of twelve years.
Side 490 - that feemed eafily to be accounted for, from my knowing that the common people were very rarely inoculated for the Small-pox, till that practice was rendered general by the improved method introduced by the Suttons
Side 490 - to fome varieties of fpontaneous eruptions upon her teats ; that they were all capable of communicating fores to the hands of the milkers ; and that whatever fore was derived from the animal, was called in the dairy the Cow-pox. Thus I furmounted a great
Side 490 - that the Cow-pox was not to be relied upon as a certain preventive of the Smallpox. This for a while damped but did not extinguifh my ardour ; for as I proceeded,
Side 400 - the dofe ¡to three-fourths of a drachm for three months longer ; then to half a drachm .for fix. months more, taking it regularly every morning if poflible. After the firft year, it will be fufficient to tike half a drachm every other day. As this medicine operates infenfibly, it will perhaps take two years before you
Side 261 - a nofegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them.
Side 492 - of thefe trials gradually led me into a wider field of experiment, which I went over not only with great attention but with painful folicitude. This became univerfally known through

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