1To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
equally accurate. The graphic art never, perhaps, received a greater honour. I likewise send some fresh infected thread, confined between two thin plates of The red thread marks the place where it is to be opened....If this should be unavoidable, it is best to wait a moment until the exudation ceases, lest the blood should dilute the virus too much, and so weaken its power. The thread is then...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 24 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The thread enclosed in this Quill was imbued in the vaccine virus on Thursday Evening the 23d of July. At the same time the needle was infected in the same fluid and it is highly probable will communicate the disease if......: “Vaccine virus on a needle, and on the thread, taken Sunday morning 26th. of July, from a young and healthy subject; on the 8th. day of the disease, another...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
on the tooth-pick taken July 31.st. in the evening. The thread taken at the same time.—The two plates of glass, which he
4To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 28 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...even less. I believe there is an art in inserting the matter which Dr. Gantt had not acquired, & which Dr. Wardlow has. I hope he will inoculate from patient to patient, and never trust to the thread when he has a recent pustule to take it from. Excuse this hasty scrawl, and accept of my profound respects.
5To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...on the important subject of preserving the active fluid-virus for inoculation, in constant succession from patient to patient. I wish he had inoculated as many as he possibly could, from the pustule, and not trusted to the thread, as the fresh fluid never, or very rarely fails communicating the infection, even when no other instrument is used than a cambric:needle.
6To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
, from which matter may be taken on the 8th. day. I should be gratified could any of your physicians have sent me some on a tooth-pick, and some on a little cotton thread, secured with some of the sheet lead. I have found the advantage of such an exchange, and should wish to propose it to Dr. Wardlaw or any other physician in your quarter. They shall have some in...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
, which you were so good as to transmit to me 4 or 5 weeks ago, on quills & on thread, has been tried. I communicated the genuine disease with some from one of the tooth-picks, but am not absolutely certain that it ever took from the thread. This induces me to make an observation that may be useful to your inoculators....at first sight, suspicious of the goodness of the thread you sent me...thread
8To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
fluid exude from the vaccine pustule, especially after being too much exhausted and irritated in procuring virus. This exudation gives a shining glazy appearance to the thread. I know of no writer, or practitioner who has made this distinction.—
9Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
! By his death I feel as if one strand of the thread of my life was cut. It is a heavy, very heavy stroke to his old
10To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
listened to, until my patience is thread-bare at least.—