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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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    It is to be regretted that they are not more pru- dent, for the public may give implicit credit to both. It must be owned indeed, that on this occa- sion, there was superadded to the general ten- dency of doctors to differ, a particular motive which rarely fails of having that effect upon all mankind. Small-pox, was the source of no inconsiderable portion of the income of every medical practitioner; in so much that neither . physicians nor surgeons would abandon this dis- ease to the management of the other. The phy- sician claimed it as a contagious fever, and there- fore a medical case; but as the surgeon was the inoculator, he did not choose to relinquish the profits of the subsequent treatment. While each was eager for the whole, it was hardly to be ex- pected, that a plan to take it from both, would be kindly received by either: Jenner’s discovery was a touchstone, to detect what proportion of selfishness alloyed the human heart. It was calculated to make known, whe- ther the scenes of misery, which medical men are compelled to witness, blunt their feelings. The result. has certainly reflected distinguished: honour on the faculty; for the plan to exter-
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