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The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Extract of a letter from Norfolk, VA, dated June 15, 1801, reports that Ephraim Gilman, after receiving Kine-Pox inoculation from Dr. Benjamin Page of Hallowell, was unsuccessfully inoculated for smallpox four times and exposed to contagion without contracting it. A Boston gentleman reported similar protection after Kine-Pox from Dr. Waterhouse.
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KINE-POX.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Ephraim Gilman, to Dr. Benjamin Page, jun. of this town, dated Norfolk (Vir.) June 15th, 1801.
"SIR,
"Pursuant to your request, and for my own satisfaction, I have been inoculated for the Small-Pox four different times without effect, after having taken the Kine-Pox from you. I still thought there was a possibility of taking it by contagion, when not by inoculation; but that too I reduced to a certainty, by sleeping constantly with Mr. Randall, our late townsman, who was inoculated with me and took it; and by watching with two others who were very sick with it. It is now three weeks since, and I have not had a symptom of any disease.
"A gentleman who came from Boston lately, told me, that after having taken the Kine-Pox from Dr. Waterhouse, he was inoculated three times for the Small-Pox ineffectually."
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Primary Location
Hallowell
Event Date
July 10, 1801
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no symptoms of smallpox after multiple inoculations and exposure to contagion following kine-pox vaccination.
Event Details
Ephraim Gilman reports being inoculated for smallpox four times without effect after receiving Kine-Pox from Dr. Page. He exposed himself to smallpox contagion by sleeping with an infected townsman and watching two sick individuals but remained healthy after three weeks. A Boston gentleman similarly unaffected after Kine-Pox from Dr. Waterhouse.