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

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

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    discovery; he is in fact quite innocent of the infamy he charges himself with; his crime is of a very different nature. His pursuit is gain, and his art isa species of deception, that deludes the best, and sometimes the wisest men. Lord Bacon was as credulous as an old nurse, with regard to the effects of medicine ; and Mr. Boyle signed an affidavit of the miraculous cures performed by the touch of a holy man. It is not with medicine alone, that the cunning empiric performs his cures. He sometimes ope- rates more successfully by an unusual incompre- hensible legerdemain trick. Mesmer. convinced thousands of the nobility, and even some men of science in Paris, that he could cure diseases without either medicine or change of diet. He placed his patients round a box full of broken glass, and made them pinch _each others thumbs, while he waved a rod of: steel in the air. By employing a mysterious jar- gon he even made many believe that they were capable of doing the same; and they paid him large sums for being taught this valuable art. De Mainaduc and Miss Prescott have improved: — / D . y «
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