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March 31, 1807
Alexandria Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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English physician Dr. Thomas Beddoes praises American medical advancements, converting to the view that yellow fever is non-contagious, highlighting progress since the 1793 outbreak and the 1797 start of the first American medical periodical in New-York.
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AMERICAN IMPROVEMENTS
In PHYSIC.
Doctor Thomas Beddoes, the celebrated English Physician, is a great reader of American books. He has abandoned the Old School on the question of Contagion, and become a convert to the non-contagiousness of yellow fever. - In a letter to one of his correspondents he writes thus, " I do not know any country in which so much has been done for Medicine as in America ; if you except the introduction of Vaccine Inoculation, the most useful practice ever fallen upon." ; Indeed it must be owned, that since the appearance of the yellow fever in 1793, and more especially since the commencement of the first American periodical work on Medicine at New-York, in 1797, a new Era has commenced in the history of that profession.
In PHYSIC.
Doctor Thomas Beddoes, the celebrated English Physician, is a great reader of American books. He has abandoned the Old School on the question of Contagion, and become a convert to the non-contagiousness of yellow fever. - In a letter to one of his correspondents he writes thus, " I do not know any country in which so much has been done for Medicine as in America ; if you except the introduction of Vaccine Inoculation, the most useful practice ever fallen upon." ; Indeed it must be owned, that since the appearance of the yellow fever in 1793, and more especially since the commencement of the first American periodical work on Medicine at New-York, in 1797, a new Era has commenced in the history of that profession.
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Disease Or Epidemic
Education
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American Medicine
Yellow Fever
Thomas Beddoes
Vaccine Inoculation
Medical Periodical
What entities or persons were involved?
Doctor Thomas Beddoes
Where did it happen?
America
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America
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Doctor Thomas Beddoes
Event Details
Doctor Thomas Beddoes praises American medical progress, adopting the view of yellow fever's non-contagiousness, and notes a new era in medicine since the 1793 yellow fever appearance and the 1797 start of the first American medical periodical in New-York.