Volume 1

Remarks on a letter to Sir Robert Barker ... and George Stacpoole upon general inoculation, by John Coakley Lettsom ... / [Thomas Dimsdale].

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
1779
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Credit: Remarks on a letter to Sir Robert Barker ... and George Stacpoole upon general inoculation, by John Coakley Lettsom ... / [Thomas Dimsdale]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. IN compliance with the requeft of fome friends, to whofe opinions I pay great deference, the following Remarks on Dr* Lettfom’s letter to Sir Robert Barker, and George Stacpoole, Efq. are reluctantly publifhed. It is undoubtedly a matter of great con- fequence, to determine whether the Ino¬ culation of a fmall number of the poor in this great city, without the confent of their neighbours, be a practice deferving encouragement, as the phyficians of this pretended charity have advanced ; or whe¬ ther this mode of pra&ice does not endan¬ ger the lives of many unhappy perfons, who may be in an ill Rate of health, or unwilling to fubmit to Inoculation, and yet unable to avoid the infection ; and alfo contribute to extend and continue a dif- eafe that it fhould be every one’s care to fupprefs as much as poffible, which is the opinion that I have fupported. Yet inter- efting as the queftion certainly is, it can hardly
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