Page:An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ - 1798.djvu/13

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TO

C. H. PARRY, M. D.

AT BATH.



MY DEAR FRIEND,

In the present age of scientific investigation, it is remarkable that a disease of so peculiar a nature as the Cow Pox, which has appeared in this and some of the neighbouring counties for such a series of years, should so long have escaped particular attention. Finding the prevailing notions on the subject, both among men of our profession and others, extremely vague and indeterminate, and conceiving that facts might ap-pear