A letter to J. C. Lettsom ... occasioned by Baron Dimsdale's Remarks on Dr. Lettsom's Letter to Sir Robert Barker, and G. Stacpoole, Esq., upon general inoculation / By an uninterested spectator of the controversy between Baron Dimsdale and Dr. Watkinson, on the above mentioned subject.
- Date:
- 1779
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to J. C. Lettsom ... occasioned by Baron Dimsdale's Remarks on Dr. Lettsom's Letter to Sir Robert Barker, and G. Stacpoole, Esq., upon general inoculation / By an uninterested spectator of the controversy between Baron Dimsdale and Dr. Watkinson, on the above mentioned subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![.4 , \ [ 3° ] objection is futile, becaufe it cannot be fupported by proof He objects alfo, the lltuation of the London poor, u their habitations in clofe alleys, courts, u See. cold and dirty; their want of neceftaries, u afliftance and care, with regard to the exhibi- a tion of medicine, and the regulation of diet/' Thofe objections alfo would be valid, did not every one of them militate infinitely lefs againfl inoculation, than againfl the natural difeafe, the occurrence of which that inoculation is defigned to obviate. The mildnefs of the diflemper, in one cafe, mufl render all thefe circnmftances of much lefs confequence than the feverity of it now renders them in the other j. With regard how¬ ever to matter of ahiflance, if by afliftance he means the attendance of nurfes, his own tefti- * Throughout the whole of Baron Dimfdale’s argumentation, one might fuppofe he was writing of fome newly difeovered country where the fmallpox was totally unknown, inflead of Lon¬ don where it has exided for centuries. f The miferable lltuation of the London poor, the clofenefs of their habitations, and every other peculiar of the city that can tend to enhance the malignity of putrid difeafes, mud: operate in favour of inoculation; as all thefe circumftances mudfnereafe the fatality of the natural didemper. mony](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30544890_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
