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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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    * and irrelative to the question. They may cons “found fools, but not illustrate the credit of Vac- “ cination.” The lively disposition of the author was already hinted at. This passage shews how little qualified he is for the dull plodding work of ascertaining facts. He has published 218 cases to prove that the Cow-pox was no security against the small-pox ; and that it occasioned many shocking distempers, and even death itself. But he thought it quite irrelevant to enquire, whether in any of these cases, the Cow-pox took or was genuine. - he consideration of the cases of the failures of Vaccination, which have been published, makes it advisable to explain a subject, which is very im- portant to be understood; both for the settling, this controversy, and explaining other sks disputes. The evidence that is requisite to prove or dis- is of a peculiar kind. It differs entirely from that species of proof which satisfies a Court of Law. - Both direct and circumstantial evidence, which
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