Volume 1

Mr. Maitland's account of inoculating the small pox vindicated [by himself], from Dr. Wagstaffe's misrepresentations of that practice, with some remarks on Mr. Massey's sermon.

  • Charles Maitland
Date:
1722
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Credit: Mr. Maitland's account of inoculating the small pox vindicated [by himself], from Dr. Wagstaffe's misrepresentations of that practice, with some remarks on Mr. Massey's sermon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ’8 ] Fears of a great Clafs of Hypothetical DU feafes, is all vanifh'd, and the Girl is very well. I refer the Dodfcpr upon this Head of the Preventive Power of Inoculation, to the Letter which he lays fo much Strefs upon, from Bojlon > where his Ally in this Difpute owns, That not one cf the Ino¬ culated (being about three Hundred) during the Space of five or fix Months, in a general Run of the Small Box, has had the Small Pox the natural Way7 as far as we know : But of this more afterwards. As for his fecond Story of Captain Hufi fart7 it requires only a bare Reading to make it ridiculous 5 For no unprejudic'd Perfon of common Senfe can believe that one, after ha- ying been Inoculated twice without any Ef¬ fect, would try it a third Time : But after a third Time, to try it a fourth, fifth, and fixth Time, paffeth all Degrees of Credibility. But it feems this Captain was not very certain, whether it was five or lix Times; one Inocu¬ lation had quite flipt out of his Memory : he wanted one Quality, which the Proverb de¬ mands in fome Sort of People. Since the Do¬ ctor can give Credit to this Story of Captain Hujfarty and at the fame Time queftion the Truth of what is faid by eminent Phylicians, who writ from their own and other Peoples Obfervations on the Spot, where Inoculation is practis'd daily j I appeal to my Readers, if I may not with Juftice tax him of being par*
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