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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    / [ 37 ] He mentions afterward that Cats had it $ and takes notice of the fame thing in cDo£ior Leigh's Hiftory tf/'Lancalhire 5 andfubjoinsy That it was generally complain'd that Pi- geon-houfes of the City continu'd unfruitful j and the Pigeons did not lay or hatch, as they us'd to do, all the while that the Small Pox was in its Epidemical Progrefs: And it is very ftrongly affirmed, that our ^Dunghill Fowl felt much of the like upon them. At laft concludes 5 with the great Benefit they have found by Blifters early apply'd and continu'd in the natural Small Pox, and is forty it was fo late before they fell into this Way s but it has conftantly proffer’d : I s know not, fays he, that it has once mifcar¬ ried fince we came into it. I refer the Rea¬ der to his Letter annex'd. It appears by this Letter, that fomewfaat more than one out of five, and lefs than one out of fix died of the Diftemper. And like- wife,by the Effcds mention'd upon Animals, that the general Contagion was owing to a bad Difpofition of the Air 3 and not char¬ geable upon Inoculation. And laftly, notwithflanding the unfavou- J J C-U rable Conftitution of the Air, the Inoculated did well. I doubt not but the impartial Reader is now fatisfy'd that this Pradice of Inocula¬ tion may be ftill beneficial to Mankind, not- ^vithftanding any thing that the Dodor has adduc'd
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