Observations medical and political: on the small-pox and inoculation; and on the decrease of mankind at every age, with a comparative view of the diseases most fatal to London during ninety years. Including an attempt to demonstrate in what manner London may save near two thousand ... lives annually ... / [William Black].

William Black

Date:: 1781

Credit: Observations medical and political: on the small-pox and inoculation; and on the decrease of mankind at every age, with a comparative view of the diseases most fatal to London during ninety years. Including an attempt to demonstrate in what manner London may save near two thousand ... lives annually ... / [William Black]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$•* t * * - - * ■ * I shall endeavour to ftate with equal can¬ dour, and with as much brevity as poffible the arguments advanced by each of the difputants. Of all the publications upon this controverfy, I fliall exhibit to view but two, that of Baron Dimfdale, and another the joint production of two very learned Phyficians, Dr. Watkinfon, and Dr. Sims; the two gentlemen who firft recommended a Difpenfary, and offered their fervices without fee or reward, to render Ino* culation more general and ufeful to London and to the Nation. Baron Dimfdale, the leading and ardent champion againft general Inoculation in Lon¬ don, “ at the houfes of the laborious poor, €c and middling trades people*' refts his op- pofition upon the following principles: I give the abftraCt and fubftance in his owq words. I mu ft alfo do the Baron the juftice to fay, that feemingly, he has urged, and ex- haufted every fhadow of argument on that fide of the difpute. “ Though the lofs under Inoculation i? €e very inconfiderable, almojl the whole of thofe <c that are Inoculated recovering, yet by *f fpreading the difeafe, a greater proportion €c take it in the natural way : more lives are “ now loft in London than bejore Inoculation €s commencedK\$

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