Volume 3

Medical sketches, in two parts / By John Moore.

  • John Moore
Date:
1786
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical sketches, in two parts / By John Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    provement, it would. of courfe be greatly retarded in its progrels, But a thing fo eafily tried as a medicine, and which people in pain or in danger are | fo eager to make trial of, if it really poffeffed the virtues fuppofed, could not poffibly be for any confiderable time withheld from general wife. Every day, every hour would add ta its reputation; the beft attefted, Spontaneous evidence of cures would come from all | quarters; every grateful tongue would pro- claim the virtues of the: medicine; thofe who talked of noftrums and quackery, would be hiffed into hilence ; and the voice — of falfehood and envy would be drowned by the general fuffrage, ~The praQtice of inoculation of the fmall- pox Is certainly not for the intereft of phy- fic, confidered as a trade. The prefent method was not introduced into this country by regular phyficians, who are now feldom P : Soe “galled