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An answer to Dr. Moseley, containing a defence of vaccination / By John Ring.

  • John Ring
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An answer to Dr. Moseley, containing a defence of vaccination / By John Ring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    people need not die under inoculation of the small- pox, that so. many should fall victims to that practice, besides the incalculable mischief done to society, by spreading the natural infection. Be the cause what it may, the inoculation of the small-pox often proves fatal; yet while it is pro- fitable, advocates for the practice will not be wanting. Instead, however, of saying, that a person who is inoculated with the small-pox need not die, we should rather say, needs must when the Devil drives. - ) ait But Dr. Moseley still takes care to furnish us with arguments against himself; like a Dutch- man, who supplies his enemies with arms and am- munition. He is another Penelope; what he weaves in one sentence, he unweaves in another, After telling us, that people who are under the inoculation of the small-pox May escape a num- ber of perils; that they need not die of the phy- sician, that they need not die of the surgeon, and . that they need not die of the apothecary ; he con- fesses they may die of the nurse. What avails it, _ therefore, that the wretched victims of variolous | inoculation survive the dangers of the lancet, the prescription, and the pill, when, at last, they are ‘to die by the hands of an old woman ? Dr. Moseley candidly confesses, that “nurses, and the patients themselves, are often guilty of great misconduct; and that fatal accidents have been the consequence. He tells us, that Sutton
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