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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    [ ] Truths of our Holy Religion to mantain lit¬ tle Party Intcrefts and fashionable Opinions. The Text that is quoted Pag. 22. that the ve¬ ry Hairs of our Head are numbred; I take to be a ftronger Argument againft Periwigs and Shaving 5 than all that the Sermon contains againft Inoculation: Our Hairs of our Beards were given us for an Ornament by Provi¬ dence, and it is* known, that many have catch’d great Colds with mortal Difeaies en- fuing upon them by Shaving. Is not a Man anfwerable for all the bad Effeds that fol¬ low upon an unwarrantable Adion that con- tradids- the very Intention of Providence > The Peroration Page 29, is equal to any Piece of the whole Performance, Let the A- theifi and the Scoffer, the Heathen and the Unbeliever difclaim a Hependance upon Pro¬ vidence : Let them Inoculate and be Inocu¬ lated, &c. I think this clinches the whole Matter s and this Reverend Gentleman has furniflfd us with a new, fenfible and religious Teft, an Atheift or Infidel can be found out, as aWitch, by the Marks upon his Body: And that, as it has been intimated already, that the Devil was the firft Inotuldtor,* I think, it is not impollible that the next zealous Preacher upon this Subjcd may prove the Cicatrices of Inoculation to be the Mark of the Beaft. Thus it appears, that the Dodors Polition, of the Unlawfulnefs of infliding Dileafes fof good Purpofes, is groundlefs, and Contrary to the common Ufages of Mankind. I
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