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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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    prevents Small-pox, is exactly similar to that which was agitated a century ago; whether the inoculation of the Small-pox invariably prevented the contracting of that disease afterwards by con- tagion, which continues an undecided point ; for there are many cases fully authenticated of persons having Small-pox twice, and many more have been narrated by the best authorities, which no one took the-trouble to record. Dr. Wood- ville, late physician to the+Small-pox Hospital, often said, that.patients were frequently brought into that Hospital covered with Small-pox, who declared that they had been inoculated in their infancy, and had learnt from their mothers they had had the disease. | In fact, there are no positive marks by which — these difliculties can be always cleared up. _ The Small-pox pustule puts on a great variety of appearances ; sometimes it is very small, some- times large and full; it generally fills with pus, but in confluent cases with lymph, and in very mild cases little or no fluid forms in the pim- ples. The pustules grow dry, or;scab, at all periods, from two days to fourteen, or more ; and it is no uncommon case for the fever of D 3
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