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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    C ] Streets, is as great an Inftance of Barbarity, as the other is of Ignorance. There is a Letter in Town from the Revd. Mr. Mather at Bojion of a later Date, which has feveral remarkable Paffages in it. The Dijlemper (meaning the Small Pox) has late¬ ly vifited and ranfacked the City of Bofton -y and in little more than half a Tear, of about five thoufand Ter fans, that have undergone it, near nine hundred have died. But how many Lives might have been fav’d, if our unhappy Phyficians had not poi- fond and bewitch'd our People with a blind Rage, that has appear dy very like a Satanick Pofefion, againfl the Method of Relief and Safety in the way of the Small Pox Inocula¬ ted? Iprevaild with one Phyfician {andfor it, I have had bloody Attempts made upon my Life by fome of our Energumens) to in¬ troduce the Practice > and the Experiment has been made upon almoft three himdred Sub¬ jects in our Neighbourhood, young and oldy from one Tear to feventy s weak and Jtrong, Male and Female, white and black j in Mid- fummer, in Autumn and Winter: And it fuc- ceeds to Admiration. I cannot learn that any one has died ofity thd the Experiment has been made under va¬ rious ayid marvellous Difadv ant ages. Five or fix have died upon it or after it; but from other Accidents. He
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