A popular and impartial estimate of the present value of vaccination, as a security against small pox, and of the danger of encouraging or tolerating the inoculation of the latter. Addressed to parents and the public / by Samuel Plumbe.

  • Plumbe, Samuel, 1795-1837.
Date:
1830
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    prone to muuerous diseases. So uuinerous, indeed, are its dis- eases, at least in appearance, that they have been made to co« ver nosological charts large enough for the study of a whole life. Even the perusal of Alibert and Willan is a task of no trifling difficulty ; for, although the eye may be amused by the beauty of deformity in the plates, the memory and judgment are dis- tracted, fatigued, and ultimately dissipated by the innumerable distinctions without difference, or diffei-ences without use. Mr. Plumbe has for some time paid attention to cutaneous diseases, and is well known as the author of a work on Porrigo, already noticed in this journal. In the work before us he has steered as widely as possible of those numerous divisions into species where slight variations only exist, and those endless distinctions, with- out real differences, adopted by others, as being calculated to discourage the student rather than promote the knowledge of the subject. After the extensive analysis we have given, and not making criticism our trade, we shall say little on the merits or demerits of Mr. Plumbe's work. It has originality ; and we think he has corrected the erroneous notions of more celebrated authors than himself, and we venture to say it will go thi'ough several editions.—Medico Chirurgical Review. If Mr. Plumbe has in his new views of an old subject im- proved our notions of the relative bearings of its different parts and given greater consistency and tptality to the whole—if he has made what was before obscure, intelligible—if he has lopped off redundancies and opened up the avenues which led to the ob- scure and hitherto inaccessible parts of the science, we, in our humble estimate of the march of human knowledge, think he has done a great deal. Now this is what we conscientiously think Mr. Plumbe has done, and we feel therefore, as members of the profession, under obligations to him for the pains he has taken in investigating with so much pathological acumen the different forms of chronic cutaneous diseases, and forthe skill he has dis- played in their arrangement. We shall give the best proof we can of our sincerity in this acknowledgment, by appropriating an unusually large portion of our pages to the analysis of the work. We are, on the whole, well satisfied with the author's classification, and we think it but a small compliment to him to say, that it is decidedly superior to the well known divisions of Drs. Willan and Bateman. Throughout the whole of the work, we must do him the justice to say, he has carefully ab- stained from multiplying names and subdividing diseases into species differing from each other in points of no pathological im- portance ; and in this course he has evinced, as it appears to us, much good sense, and a complete emancipation from scientific frippery. j * We have said enough, we think, to satisfy our readers that it is a good book, and worthy a place in their libraries. It does great credit to the author's industry and talent, and we can con- scientiously say, we have derived much instruction and pleasure from its perusal.—//onrfow Medical and Physical Journal.
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