Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black.
- William Black
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![■[ S6 ] hazard the hves of a young family, becaufe iheir neighbour has fcruples againft Inocuia-^ tion, and obftinately perfuts to rejeft that certain means of fecurity. So long as Ino- culation is confined to a few, fo muft its benefits: we mean it to be univerfal. The Baron in the clofe of this laft paragraph, where he raves againft partial Inodilation^ is inconfiftent with himfelf, and without be- ing fenfible of the contradiftion, is evident- ly pleading the caufe of general Inoculation. Where the inhabitants of country towns are all Inoculated at one and the fame time, xinqueftionably the neighbourhood and tra- ' vellers v/ill be lefs expofed to danger, and th^ difeafe may not return back again to that vi- cinage until feveral years have elapfed;' but in London, we are never without an immenft magazine of poifon from natural and Inocu- lated Small-pox 3 a very fmail fpark of which is fufficient to kindle up the difeafe,' and to multiply itfelf in a favourable difpofition of the air. The cafe mentioned by Baron Dimfdale, but copied from Dr. JVlead, is one of many other proofs to this effecl, and is as follows. ''In 1718, two or three children had caught the infeftion of Small-pox in the ' Ea.ft»](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21354236_0094.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
