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The Medical and Franklin Library of Dr. William von Valtier
Lot 36

FRANKLIN ON SMALLPOX INOCULATION.
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. 1706-1790.
Some Account of the Success of Inoculation for the Small-Pox in England and America. Together with Plain Instructions, By which any Person may be enabled to perform the Operation, and conduct the Patient through the Distemper. London: W. Strahan, 1759 and London: printed at the Expense of the Author, to be given away in America, 1759.

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FRANKLIN ON SMALLPOX INOCULATION.

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. 1706-1790. Some Account of the Success of Inoculation for the Small-Pox in England and America. Together with Plain Instructions, By which any Person may be enabled to perform the Operation, and conduct the Patient through the Distemper. London: W. Strahan, 1759 and London: printed at the Expense of the Author, to be given away in America, 1759.
4to, (255 x 210 mm). Modern wrappers, neatly reinforced along inner margin tear to title page restored; quarter morocco folding case.
Provenance: Library Company of Philadelphia (bookplate marked 'Duplicate / E.W' [Edwin Wolf] laid in); Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale, Christie's New York, Part 2, 15 June, 1998, lot 452).

FIRST EDITION. "Franklin's statistical account of smallpox inoculation in Boston during the epidemic of 1753-54, showing the beneficial effects of the practice, was written for William Heberden, who contributed the 'Plain Instructions' mentioned in the title. Early in his life Franklin had actively opposed inoculation but he became one of its strongest advocates after the tragic death of his son from smallpox in 1736" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5419); Norman 833.

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