Considerations on the propriety of a plan for inoculating the poor of London at their own habitations: with a view particularly to the arguments urged in defence of it / by the author of a late anonymous Letter to Dr. J.C. Lettsom.
- Date:
- 1779
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Considerations on the propriety of a plan for inoculating the poor of London at their own habitations: with a view particularly to the arguments urged in defence of it / by the author of a late anonymous Letter to Dr. J.C. Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I [ 8 ] particular, thinks that the difeafe by Inocula¬ tion is icarcely infe&ious, and that there is no danger of extending the natural difeafe by it, though every precaution be omitted h : the endeavour to inculcate which idea diredts his whole evidence, and pervades his whole trea¬ cle. The learned author feems then to have judged rightly, that the pradbce of the Society for inoculating the poor at their own habitations, could be defended upon no other principle. When he was forced from this entrenchment by a clofe inveftigation of his teftimonies and his arguments, and by a plain appeal to facts, he caught hold of the fum of good and evil; the horns of the altar, by which he hoped to fave his fyftem from utter perdition. The contro- verfy which drove him to this fanftuary, it pleafes and fuits the writer, vvhofe letter I have now under confideration, to call “ frivolous.” Others, depending upon vague and ill-founded eftimates of the increafed number of houfes in the metropolis, in oppoiition to calculations fairly deduced from the Bills of- Mortality, contend for an increafed population. And laftly, the argument refpedting the fum of good and evil, which urges, that, granting fome evil may be produced by an unguarded b Examination of a Charge brought againft Inocula¬ tion, by Dr. Watkinfon. Inoculation,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30534896_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
