Remarks on Mr. Birch's 'Serious reasons for uniformly objecting to the practice of vaccination' / [James Carrick Moore].

  • James Moore
Date:
1806
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Credit: Remarks on Mr. Birch's 'Serious reasons for uniformly objecting to the practice of vaccination' / [James Carrick Moore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reflect upon their own profession, and not 4 syllable to that purpose isin my pamphlet. } have indeed paid a most deserved compliment to those medical. men, whether physiciahs or surgeons, who have most disinterestedly at- tempted the extermination of the Small-pox ; and it will give me the highest satisfaction to have an opportunity to extend this compliment to Mr. Birch, Had my opponent been a skilful advocate, he would certainly have avoided, touching upon the horrors of the confluent Small-pox. But Mr. Birch falls immediately upon that unlucky part. He allows that my description “may be just;’.* but states that such oe- currences ‘‘ stand as extreme cases, on which ** the rhetorician may declaim indeed, but from ‘** which the sound reasoner can draw no con- ** clusive argument.” I wish Mr. Birch had. informed us from what treatise of logic he learnt, that sound reasoners can draw no conclusive arguments from extreme cases. My plain sense, as well as the few books ] have read, have taught me that the best con-
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