An inquiry into the merits of a method of inoculating the small-pox, which is now practised in several counties of England / By George Baker.

  • Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet
Date:
MDCCLXVI. [1766]
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Credit: An inquiry into the merits of a method of inoculating the small-pox, which is now practised in several counties of England / By George Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [4] trodudtion, will, it is hoped, incline them to hear with pati¬ ent attention any propofals, from whatever quarter they may come, which may tend to make this practice dill eafier and dill lets hazardous. He is an enemy to improvement, and is no Philo- fopher, who fadidioudy, and upon meer fpeculation, rejedts what he has not brought to the ted of experiment. One fo- lid pradtical obfervation is of more real value, than all the unfupported theories, which the wit of Man ever invented: and it is a precept of Hippocrates, which ought to be held in re- ' verence5 sk cwieiv vrapd tuv ’ISicctsmv itTTopsew vv Tt honest %UfxQepov eh Kcupov QepctTruvp.