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A reply to the anti-vaccinists / [James Carrick Moore].

  • James Moore
Date:
1806
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Credit: A reply to the anti-vaccinists / [James Carrick Moore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    time; the present illness must therefore be en- tirely owing to the humour of the cow. The same convincing argument was formerly employed after Small-pox inoculation. Many a disease was thrown in the teeth of the surgeon, which mothers were resolved to believe, proceed- ed from variolous matter taken from a distem- pered child; and when the surgeon had been par- ticularly prudent, the poor wet-nurse commonly bore the blame. Though she was apparently healthy, with a blooming colour, white teeth, plenty of milk, and a chopping boy, yet who could tell what secret complaint was in her _ blood, which had not yet broke out. So if the lady’s child proved sickly and puny, it was entirely owing to bad milk. This was wont to be the babble of the nursery ; but it is now adopt- ed by. some regular, and irregular physicians, as good medical reasoning. _ Men of calm minds are amused with observing the violence, with which the zealots, both for and against Vaccination, spur their unreigned hobbies. The first not content with exterminat- ing the Small-pox, believed that it would cure or prevent many other fevers and eruptions ; and . ay
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