An answer to a pamphlet, entituled, Some reasons why the practice of inoculation ought to be introduced into the town of Bury at present. / By Martin Warren. M.D.

  • Warren, Martin, 1696-1735
Date:
M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]
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Credit: An answer to a pamphlet, entituled, Some reasons why the practice of inoculation ought to be introduced into the town of Bury at present. / By Martin Warren. M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( J4 ) • times the firft of a Family that fell down of the Diftemper, had I will fay, a malignant, confluent Sort, the next the 2d, and jd, who in all humane Probability received the poifonous In- • fedion from this Perfon, had the Favourable and Diftind • and in the fame Family, the 4th or 5th Patient fnould have the Malignant, and fo vice verfa, and therefore one Part of this Affertion, [viz.'] very highly probable is falfe. , Let us examine the other, which with great Boldnefs is pronounced certain in Inoculation. Now I would ask this Author whether he thus roundly afferts this upon his own ex¬ perience in the Method , of Inoculation • if he avers this, I am not fuch an obftinate Enemy to this dangerous Method as to deny Fact: But if he has not his own Experience to lupport it, I may be allowed to tell him that the piinted * Relations of the unexfpeded Stubbornefs and Danger of this Diftemper under the Inoculators Hands, are Convidions that the Author tramples upon the Rules of Modefty to fupport an ill Caufe. If the famous Operators in this Method have not always had the Charm to raile a kind Sort from a mild one, but have frequently con¬ jur’d up a malignant Sort which nothing but Death could bind. I would gladly know if this Gentleman has been taught this unfound Certainty in Inoculation by Infpiration, and has honeftly conveyed all the Secret to his Operators altogether unskilled and unacquainted in this Pradice • If lo • I am not lo hardy as to difpute (tho’ we live in an Age not very fond of) Infpiration. But I exped proper Credentials, and till he pro¬ duces ’em, lhall call in Queltion his Veracity in the next Lines as much as I disbelieve the Certainty of his Affertion now. For here the Experience of old Nurfes will confute his Reafoning, and inform him that the Small Pox at its firft coming into a Town is not always favourable, and as it fpreads grows * Fide The Cafe of Lord Bathurfi’s Servant, Mrs. Weller, Mr. Hu 1/3 Daughter, jge. . ’ t.-jSJJV/.f more