When it is considered that the small-pox is one of the chief causes of depopulation ... / [John Coakley Lettsom].

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1779]
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Credit: When it is considered that the small-pox is one of the chief causes of depopulation ... / [John Coakley Lettsom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H s C « 7 event has taken place; nor has any inftance occurred to the medical praBitioners engaged in this inftitution, to prove that the infeBion has been propagated from an inoculated patient. But thpugh fuccefs has thus removed the prejudices of the lower clafs of people, and encreafed their defire for Inoculation, there are, however, individuals, whofe oppofition to. fo benevolent an inftitution has been proportionally augmented ; and much labour has been employed to prove, that whilll the Inoculation of the rich at their own houfes, is a laudable praBice, it is highly injurious to the community, when introduced among the poor. The poor, however, though flow in admitting new improvements, are not foon to be reafoned out of feif-evident faBs; and their willingnefs to try Inoculation, continues to augment with the fuccefs of the praBice. » - ’ ' * 4 - . ■ . 3. • - : v - * Pofitions, however, though ever fo repugnant to experience, when advanced by perfons of acknowledged ability in their profeflion, will have fotpe influence on thofe individuals, from whofe approbation and bounty every ufeful inftitution muft derive its liability. It, therefore, behoves every friend of the poor, to oppofe faBs to bare affections, when the interefts of fo ufeful a part of the community are in danger of being effentially injured. Hence it Is, that this appeal is made to the Faculty, and other perfons acquainted with the comparative efteBs of the Natural and Artificial Difeafe, in hopes of acquiring fuch further information, as may more fully afcertain the fum of good and evil confequent on each; and they are refpeBively requefted to anfwer as many of the following queries as come within the * *'k * - r ~ r ... — r compafs of their perfonal experience. ■■ ■ - t I. At what periods of time is the Natural Small-Pox moil prevalent or fatal ? II. In thofe places, where the Small-Pox appears at certain intervals, has Inoculation been » .r known to propagate the difeafe during fuch intervals ? III. What diftempers appear to have been the confequences of the Natural, and what of the Artificial Small-Pox ? * * .; / • >'■ * # f IV. After the Natural Difeafe has broke out in any particular diftriB or quarter of a town, has the praBice of Inoculation appeared to flop the progrefs of the infeBion, or has it accelerated it ? V, Has
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