A practical essay concerning the small pox / By William Douglass.

  • William Douglass
Date:
1730
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    fnftances of this Weaknefs from his own LeU ters concerning Inoculation publiflied in Lon¬ don: In one Letter dated March 17-22, he tells the World, That An. 1721, in Boflony fome Cats had a regular Small Pox and died of it; that during the Small Poxy the Pid- geons and Dunghill Fowls did not lay nor hatch, that he never knew Bliftering mifs of faving Life in the Small Pax, &c. In his Let¬ ter communicated to the R. S. by Mr. New¬ man in Favour of Inoculation he fays, Phe Patient is more healthy after Inoculation, it is ufeful to Women in Child-bed, it dries up tedious running Ulcers, makes the crazy con- fumptive People hearty, and rids People of their former Maladies. Thus he makes a Pa¬ nacea of it. To allow of fuch grofs and bold Affertions without difproving of them, would be leading; Mankind into a Snare. Altho’ Levity and Credulity brought Peo¬ ple into it at firft, without waiting the Ef¬ fects of a reafonable Number of Experiments, mod of the Anti-Inoculators from repeated Trials do now acknowledge, that Inoculation generally Speaking is a more eafy Way of un¬ dergoing the Small Pox Illnefs, than where the Infedion is received by accidental Conta¬ gion ; but its Salutarinefs falls much fliort of the extravagant Recommendations given of it by its Patrons; which were very unfair, be- i caufe