AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VARIOLAE VACCINAE, A DISEASE DISCOVERED IN SOME OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, PARTICULARLY GLOUCESTERSHIRE, AND KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE COW POX.
Springfield, [MA]: Reprinted for Dr. Samuel Cooley, by Ashley & Brewer, 1802. First American edition, from the Second London edition. 16 cm. iv, 116pp., with four engraved plates by A. Reed printed in sepia and hand-colored. Period leather binding and leather label, some loss to spine ends and boards, joints broken and front board would be detached but for a novel repair to binding using several pieces of cloth tape across the spine to hold the worn boards on. First description of a successful preventive inoculation. Lefanu, Jenner Norman 1165 - (Auction)-556. Item #68096
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