A letter from a physician in town to a friend in the country, on the subject of inoculation. In which the reasons for the practice are considered and enforced, and its consistency with our duty to God and to society ... defended / [Anon].

  • Daniel Cox
Date:
1756
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Credit: A letter from a physician in town to a friend in the country, on the subject of inoculation. In which the reasons for the practice are considered and enforced, and its consistency with our duty to God and to society ... defended / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 5° ) ing, and then, in good earneft, conclude, recommending the whole treatife to your He had been confidering 2nd anfwering fome other objections, and at length comes to the following.—‘ But the charge, fays he, K is renewed.’—fc Who will ever perfuade a <c tender father wilfully to give his only fon <c a diftemper which he may poffibly die <c of? Be the danger ever fo fmall to which <c he expofes him by Inoculation, were it a but one in an hundred, nay, in two or a three hundred that this operation is fatal <c to, as is fuppofed, ought he voluntarily <c to expofe his fon to this danger ?” Yes, * fure, replies he, to fave him from one in- * finitely greater. If prejudice does not c totally extinguifh the light of reafon in € the father. If he loves his fon he cannot 1 hefitate a moment. This is not a quef- 1 tion in morality,’ [/ am not clear, by the way, that he is right here,] ‘ it is a matter of c calculation. Why fliould we make a cafe * of confcience of a problem in arithmetic ?