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A History of the County of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

A History of the County of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Campbell, J. R.

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ISBN10: 1154965023
ISBN13: 9781154965025
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...settled in Yarmouth, we yet stand well forward in the adoption of Vaccination for that terrible pestilence--Small Pox. Early in the Spring of 1802, Mr. Norman Bond, a Lawyer, living in Bath, Eng., and an intimate friend of Dr. Jenner the discoverer of the Cow Pox, sent out in a letter a small parcel of Vaccine Lymph to his brother Dr. J. N. Bond. He had no more faith in it than the rest of the world at that time had; but to satisfy himself he tried it on an infant of a few weeks old. It succeeded; and to further test its efficacy, he inoculated the child with Small Pox, which, of course, was powerless. The infant has since grown to manhood and old age; and has been very frequently exposed to Small Pox in its most malignant forms, and he is now the oldest living Medical Gentleman in this County. He certainly was the first vaccinated in Yarmouth; possibly the first in Nova Scotia, and among the first on this Continent. I venture to hope that the obvious lesson taught by this narrative--the value of vaccination--may be practically recognized by every member of the community. seta forth to the Sheriff of Shelbume County, as it then was, his duty to call together the proprietors, whose names all follow, of the said Township of Yarmouth, to be summoned by you, by giving forty days notice to the aforesaid persons if they will be present, and in the presence of two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, that you do assign in severalty the shares or proportions of the said lands actually occupied or improved to all such proprietors who have occupied or improved the same by the oaths of twelve lawful men of the said County; and that you also cause the improved lands in the said Township to be divided respec...

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