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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![[ 9^ ] I moft cordially join iiTue with Baron Dimfdale, in imploring the attention of the legiflature to the fubjeft of Inoculation. It is not many years ago, fince a contagious dif- order am.ongft the horned cattle was recom- mended from the throne, as a fubjeft fuffici- j^ntly important for their immediate delibe- ration nor do I introduce this comparifon in a ludicrous light: but every man not deaf and callous to reafon and feeling, muft view the ruinous devallation by Small-pox amongft his fellow-creatures, as infinitely more ter- rible in its confequences. The publick at large, and the great national council not- withftanding feem hitherto to have dozed over Inoculation, and to have looked on at the daily cai^nage made by Small-pox with fttipid infenfibility and indifference. Baron Dimfdale has couched another meaning under this invocation to parlia- ment : he wifhes merely to crufli thofe who would diftribute the benefits of Inoculation , to every clafs of the people. But po legif- lature that is not arbitrary and unjuft, can ^ in this cafe prefume to make one rule for themfelves, and anotlier for the poor and middling trades-people, at leaft without, a flagrant](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21354236_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
