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 \ [ 23 ] “ But if this pofttion is permitted to ope- “ rate againft the praftice in one inftance, it « muft likewife operate againft it in another. « If the Society’s Inoculations are condemn- “ ed, Baron Dimfdale’s, mentioned in his “ Thoughts, p. 32, 33, as conduced under “ his own direction in the town of Hertford “ in 1770 and 1774, will not ftand excul- “ pated V’ If this indeed be true, it mili¬ tates againft the Baron’s practice, whofe pre¬ cautions muft then have been, in fome degree, ineffectual, but with ftill greater force againft the practice of the Society, who inoculate without any precautions at all. * Let us, however, inquire whether it be a fact. ^ • Baron Dimfdale, in his Thoughts p &c. ftates two modes of public Inoculation, which have been praftifed in the county of Hertford. The one, to inoculate as many of the inha¬ bitants of any town or village as could be perfuaded to fubmit to it.—This is the plan of the Society in London. * Letter, p. 15, p p, 2g. 1 ) , •* >' The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30534896_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
