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]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![/ [ 59 ] Dear Sir, T Comply with your requeft the more chearfully, fince I find that fuch accounts, with refpedf to the ill fuccefs of In¬ oculation in this Town, have been induftrioufiy propagated, as may, with unthinking and pre¬ judiced People, tend to bring dis¬ credit on a practice, which is of great and general benefit to man¬ kind; and which, notwithftand- ing any partial or local mifcarri- age that may now and then hap¬ pen to it, every friend of Society would wifh to fee more univer- fally prevailing. From the table annexed, you will fee that out of 384 Perfons, who have been inoculated, 13](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30787592_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
