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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![T C 43 ] able reciprocation of civility •, and the refent- ment which he indulges againft the Baron, however unjuft, may yet be natural. A man, who is awakened from amufing dreams of difcovered treafures or fyftems, is naturally enough difpleafed with the interruption, and may exclaim with him in Horace : * Pol me occidiftis, amici.” I have now gone through the whole of this writer’s argument, and I truft it will appear to the reader, that although Inoculation be a difcovery, which under careful management I,. may tend greatly to the public benefit, the negleft of precautions has already been at¬ tended with the unhappy effedt of fpreading the natural diftemper; an effect which will in all probability be increafed by this pro- pofed method of inoculating the poor at their own crouded habitations, without the content, v. or even the knowledge of the neighbourhood ; and confequently, that fuch a mode of ino¬ culating cannot be juftified, either in a polk tical or moral point of view. THE END.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30534896_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
