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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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    ** quences of introducing a bestial humour into “the human frame, after a long lapse of years? “ Who knows besides what ideas may arise in “« the course of time from a brutal fever having ex- “* cited its incongruous impressions in the brain?” ‘These fears and another of a most indelicate nature, which I do not chuse to quote, display the dreadful antipathy the Doctor entertained of the Vaccine. This, however, soon unaccountably subsides ; for in the progress of the work it seems that hopes had succeeded to his apprehensions, * “that if the Cow-pox produced no good, it “ would do no harm. to the human. constitu- “tion ;” these vain expectations soon vanished ; for in the same page he writes, “ within the last “ two years, these hopes of mine have been en- “tirely defeated by a multitude of deplorable “ cases and misfortunes, subsequent to the Cow- ‘pox inoculation never heard of from the ino- “culated Small-pox. I have lately had many “under my care, for diseased eyes, inveterate “ eruptions, and various sorts of itch in London “¢ and the neighbourhood of Chelsea. My ac- “ counts from the country are full of dismal _his- * Vide Dr. Moseley’s Lues Bovilla, second edition, p.91.
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