A Collection of Papers Relative to the Transactions of the Town of Milton

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Title:
A Collection of Papers Relative to the Transactions of the Town of Milton
Description:
The Selectmen of Milton, Massachusetts, assembled, published, and distributed this assortment of documents to prove the efficacy of vaccination against smallpox and encourage towns throughout the state to establish vaccination programs. Through the work of physicians Amos Holbrook and John Mark Gourgas, over 300 of Milton’s citizens—more than one-quarter of the population—were vaccinated, and matter was supplied to the neighboring towns of Dorchester, Canton, Stoughton, and Sharon. Benjamin Waterhouse contributed this statement on his work to the publication. Excerpt by Benjamin Waterhouse from "A Collection of Papers Relative to the Transactions of the Town of Milton … to Promote a General Inoculation of the Cow Pox, or Kine Pock as a Never Failing Preventive Against Small Pox Infection"
Creator:
Milton (Mass.)
Date:
1809
Format:
Documents
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Harvard Medical Library
Harvard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (RC183 .A2W298 v.4)
Series:
Harvard Medical Library
Subjects:
Milton (Mass.)
Vaccination
Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846
Extent:
excerpt (1 page)
Link to Item:
http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6630
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Publisher:
J. Belcher
Language:
English
Notes:
Gift of Louisa Lee Waterhouse to the Harvard College Library, 1858, and transferred to the Harvard Medical Library
Identifier:
DigID0002474