An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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THOMSON, Adam

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A discourse on the preparation of the body for the small-pox; and the manner of receiving the infection.

Philadelphia: B. Franklin & D. Hall, 1750.

Thomson, a physician in Philadelphia, was the originator of the American method of inoculation against smallpox. Printed by Benjamin Franklin. Digital facsimile from dla.library.upenn.edu at this link.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › Variolation or Inoculation