Reasons against the inoculation of the small-pox. In a letter to Dr. Jurin. Being a full answer to every thing which Mr. Maitland and others have advanced upon that subject. With a particular account of the late Miss Rolt's case, as attested under the hand of the honourable Mrs. Rolt, her mother ... / [Francis Howgrave].
- Francis Howgrave
- Date:
- 1724
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Reasons against the inoculation of the small-pox. In a letter to Dr. Jurin. Being a full answer to every thing which Mr. Maitland and others have advanced upon that subject. With a particular account of the late Miss Rolt's case, as attested under the hand of the honourable Mrs. Rolt, her mother ... / [Francis Howgrave]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ z9 ]; veral Years, and entail Miferies on fucceeding Generations. And this may be as rationally ac¬ counted for, as that the Venom of a Mad-Dog, fliould be twenty Years inter'woven with the Blood, and at laft break forth with the tame Violence, as if but juft received ; tho’ with this unhappy difference, of being more dead¬ ly. And what effedl This may have upon the Blood, by being fo long mix’d with it, Time will, I fear, produce many melancholly In- ftances. This young Lady’s Cafe confirms., what I before obferv’d, that tlie Matter avails little, but all depends upon the Blood : Now, as we can never come to any exadt Know¬ ledge what State that Fluid is in. Inoculation muft be vaftly precarious; and ihould I al¬ low, what they fo earneftly contend for j that more do eflcape, yet every particular Perfon may have juft reafon to be alarm’d ; fince the Confluent, the Cryftailine Sort, Tumours, Le- profie, King r-Evil, or Death itfelf (for ought that Mr. Maitland can tell, or any one elfe can warrant) may, by this Method of propagating Difeafes, be His hard Fate. The Inoculators furnilh us with one Inftance of a Perfon Inoculated, that never had the Small-Fox, yet had a Nervofe Malignant Fe¬ ver brought upon him by the corrofvve Mat¬ ter they had forc’d into his Blood, which prov’d fatal to him : And this was, I hope, more than what Mr. Maitland calls a little hurt](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30383699_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
