Select poems, &c / by the late John Dawes Worgan, of Bristol, who died on the 25th of July 1809, aged nineteen years. To which are added some particulars of his life and character, by an early friend and associate. With a preface, by William Hayley, esq.

  • Worgan, John Dawes, 1791-1809.
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1810
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Credit: Select poems, &c / by the late John Dawes Worgan, of Bristol, who died on the 25th of July 1809, aged nineteen years. To which are added some particulars of his life and character, by an early friend and associate. With a preface, by William Hayley, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ill reply to this interesting inquiry, the most brilliant expectations might justly be held forth, supported by arguments the most consonant to reason. But facts are the most convincing argu- ments. J he advantages that liave been already derived from ^ accination, in those districts where it has been generally propagated, constitute the best foundation on which we can rest our hopes of the advantages it w ould yield, were its propaga- tion general throughout the world. I will not go to the continent of Europe for intelligence, satis- factory as are accounts continually received from all its nations, of the bcnelits that accrue to Uiem from the Vaccine discovery. Englishmen will listen with greater pleasure to information which proceeds from their fellow-countrymen, aiul from nations more immediately connected with their own. 1 shall, therefore, confine my remarks to the progress and e/fects of the V’^accine Inoculation in the British settlements in Indiaj not because its eftects are more striking in those districts than they are in many other parts of the w'orld, but because the details respecting them may be compressed into a smaller compass. In a letter, dated December 18, 1806, from Dr. Kier, of Bombay, to Dr. Jenner (which has been printed in the .A]»pendix to Mr, Murray’s