An account of the success of inoculating the small pox in Great Britain, for the year 1724. With a comparison, between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small pox / By James Jurin.

  • James Jurin
Date:
[1725]
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Credit: An account of the success of inoculating the small pox in Great Britain, for the year 1724. With a comparison, between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small pox / By James Jurin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Wagjlaff^s Book, vtz^ That my Daughter had had the Small Pox twice, that is, once during her Confinement after the Inoculation, and by Infec¬ tion in the natural Way in eleven Weeks after the Inoculation. I muft confefs I do not underftand what Mr. Hovograve means, when he fays. That if Mr, Maitland and I are pleafed ro anfwer the three plain Qiieftions above-mentioif d, we may perhaps know why he asks them.*^ But fure, it is evident, I have not deferv’d being us'd ill for having af- certain’d the Truth, but rather fiiould have been commended by that Per- fpn, who quoting your Words, Page 24, fays, That, to impofe upon the World in any Particular, is difin- genuous and bafe; but to deceive them ill an Affair fo nearly con^ cerning the Lives of Mankind, is a Wickednefs worthy of the utmofl Abhorrence and Deteftation/' 'Tis to be hoped this Lover of Truth, and impartial Writer, has obferved this Rule, and therefore will be plea- led to give the Pubiick the Satisfaq-
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