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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![[ ] mony may be produced againil him. Speaking cf the inoculating hofpital at Pancras, Obferva- tions, page 14, he fays, u As there is always a a fufficient number of patients who are well “ enough to aflift infants and others who are un- a able to walk about, the ufe or neceflity for a nurfes will be very fmall in this hofpital.” And further, ((peaking of the Society's practice, where he thought it would ferve his purpofe to intro¬ duce it, Thoughts, p. 41. Obfervations p, 133*) he fays, u The inoculated may be divided into two <c claifes; one in whom the diflemper is fo mild ci as to admit the parties to go abroad ; the other a where the number of puftules is fo confiderable a as to confine the parties at home ; by far the a greater number will be of the firfit fort, and a whatever orders may be given, it will be im- u pofible to reftrain them from taking undue li- a berties; the children who are of an age for it cc will be found in the ftreets with their former u play-fellows, and the men and women who are u able will be endeavouring to get into their a former employments, to earn a little money, a without regarding the injury they may occa- “ fion to others. Thos e > •](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30544890_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
