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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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    upon this plan. By moving their hands, they could extract any disease out of a sick man’s body ; swallow it themselves, and then puff it into the air. Distance did not hinder them from operating with success. They could cure a man with this wonderful power, died young, the art continues to be practised and paid for magnifi- cently, and the cures are attested by coronets and mitres. After these instances it is superfluous to speak of Perkins, though he had a better trick than either. The other quacks commonly took the cases, and talking to them. — Perkins saved himself all this embarrassment. He soldered bits of brass and iron together; which he said could cure gout, rheumatism, sprains, inflammations, and twenty other diseases, and sold them for six guineas a pair. testations, many more cures, than are now pub- lished of the failure of Vaccination. He esta- blished a Perkinian society of gentlemen of con- sideration, who zealously to this day extol the fame of the tractors.. all ;
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