Observations on the introduction to the Plan of the Dispensary for general inoculation ; with remarks on a pamphlet, entitled, "An examination of a charge brought against inoculation by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers. By John Watkinson, M.D." / by the Honble Baron T. Dimsdale.

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
1788
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Credit: Observations on the introduction to the Plan of the Dispensary for general inoculation ; with remarks on a pamphlet, entitled, "An examination of a charge brought against inoculation by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers. By John Watkinson, M.D." / by the Honble Baron T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / I E ] 120, and the chofen period of 4 years ap- pears again. The feventh table of 24 years prefents the fame delufive appearance. 5 times 24 makes 120; and the lucky remainder of four years brings up the rear as before. Upon reviewing thefe tables it will appear, that in every one except the fifth the Doc- tor has artfully availed himfelf of the laft four years, which he has placed at the end of the periods of 8, 12, 20, and 24 years, without making the leaft acknowledgment, or informing the reader that the laft period was incomplete, and by this artifice any one who ftiould curforily perufe the book might be led into the miftaken fuppofition, that the Small Pox had declined in the manner thefe delufive tables reprefent, and the Doc-< tor has aflerted. The eighth table confifts of comparative periods of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 years ; but here it muft be obferved, the Dodtor has fhifted his ground, and begins with the laft Bill of Mortality, for which, he
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