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Some observations on the new method of receiving the smallpox by ingrafting or inoculating.

Boston, MA: B. Green, for S. Gerrish, 1721.

This work offers general support for the practice of Zabdiel Boylston, detailing some of Boylston’s cases, including accounts of occasions when patients died. Reprinted with additional material by Daniel Neal, as A narrative of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in New England, by Mr. Benj. Colman…London, 1722.

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COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Northeast INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › Variolation or Inoculation U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Massachusetts

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Entry Number	#5411
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/7309
External URL	some-observations-on-the-new-method-of-receiving-the-smallpox-by-ingrafting-or-inoculating

Geographic Context

Publication place: Boston, MA

Mentioned in annotation: London