An address to parents, on the subject of inoculation for the small-pox / By William Turner, jun.

  • William Turner
Date:
1792
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Credit: An address to parents, on the subject of inoculation for the small-pox / By William Turner, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ their objections to inoculation, to be juft 39 much the injlruments of bringing the difeafe upon their children, by expofing them without fcruple, to take it by infe&ion, from a patient who has a mild eruption, in hopes that they alfo will have them equal¬ ly favourably in the natural way, as tlvv call it; though this way is, in fa&, equally artificial, and proves itielf, m its confequences, be to much more w/inatural, than inoculation. For inllead of giving their children a mild difeafe, as they erro- neoufly imagine , they run at leaft an equal rifk of the worft and molt malignant kind.
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