Volume 1

Observations on the introduction to the plan of the Dispensary for General Inoculation. With remarks on a pamphlet, entitled 'An examination of a charge brought against inoculation by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers, by John Watkinson, M. D.' / By the Honble. Baron T. Dimsdale.

  • Thomas Dimsdale
Date:
1778
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Credit: Observations on the introduction to the plan of the Dispensary for General Inoculation. With remarks on a pamphlet, entitled 'An examination of a charge brought against inoculation by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers, by John Watkinson, M. D.' / By the Honble. Baron T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3° ] « t- * • • ■ * years have been inoculated here, than ir all the reft of Europe. ' . ■* * The prefent difpute is concerning th< bills of mortality, and pra&ice in London From whofe writings then ftiould we ex pe£t quotations, whofe fentiments or opi nions in evidence, or what authoritie fhould be efteemed the beft and moft re * fpe&able ? Without doubt from Englif practitioners, and principally from the moi eminent in London. But, to my gre^ furprize, inftead of an appeal to perfons c reputation here, or to modern experience a number of quotations are inferted, whic have been feleCted from the foreign ai thors that have written on Inoculatioi and only one of a later date than ten c twelve years. Not a Angle Englfthma graces the inquiry, except Dr. James Simi who is a eonfulting phyfician to the nev inftituted Society. • From this general contempt, or fear < appeal to Englilh authors, or the mo experienced cotemporary practitioners r fident where the difpute originated, ar
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