An essay on the small-pox: with regard 1st, to its specifick cause, 2dly, to its true nature and essence, 3dly, to the best methods of curing it. To which is subjoin'd, seasonable reflections and considerations on the modern practice of inoculation. In which the two grand objections to the most rational and salutary institution, are examined and refuted / by Charles Perry.

  • Charles Perry
Date:
1747
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Credit: An essay on the small-pox: with regard 1st, to its specifick cause, 2dly, to its true nature and essence, 3dly, to the best methods of curing it. To which is subjoin'd, seasonable reflections and considerations on the modern practice of inoculation. In which the two grand objections to the most rational and salutary institution, are examined and refuted / by Charles Perry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - . Ch] good Genius. Few Words had paffed be¬ twixt us, before the Baron- whifpered his Valet de Chambre; who, thereupon, pre- fented me with a noble Fee, wrapped up in Paper. Within a few Minutes after, came in anEngUJh Gentleman, one of the greateft Commoners of the Realm, (but whofe Name I dare not prefume to mention.) The Baron hearing his Voice cried. Who's there ? Mofl- fieur fuch a one ? The Gentleman replied,— the very fame, Monfieur le Baron : Then the Baron told him, in French, to this Effe<T namely, that he had had the good Fortune to meet with an Englijh Phyfician there, who had accounted for, and explained his Diftem- per incomparably better than all the Wretches of Phyficians whom he had been confulting for nine Years paft. But I beg Pardon for this long Digreflion:—It does, I own it, fmeH rank, and putid of Egotifm ; the Thing I mortally hate: But they ferve to corroborate and verify what I have faid above of the Fa¬ culty in France ; and therefore I could not help indulging my Fancy in the Recital of them. It is a Notion, or Opinion, which I have long fince held, and maintained, that where the Philofopher ends, the Philologer ihould begin 3 or rather, that when any one has made confiderable Advances in the philofophic Sphere, he fhould then at leaft commence Philologer: And this-not according to the narrow