Tentamen inaugurale de vaccinae verae testimoniis : quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri D. Georgii Baird, ... pro gradu doctoris, ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Gulielmus Calvert.

  • Calvert, John William.
Date:
1820
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    7. Documenta tamen, quae de his protulit, fallacissima esse fautores vaccinae luculenter ostenderunt, Doctor Woodville ideo con- cessit variolam naturalem in exemplis antea dictis,quae eruptiones comitatae sunt, exne- cessario supervenisse, cum in aedem ad vacci- nam accipiendam recepti fuere. Sed quis medicus, qui unquam variolae naturalis centum viderit exempla, tantum numerum extitisse crederet, et ne unum quidem mor- tuum fuisse ? Quinetiam si detur morbum fuisse variolam, utcunque susceptam, maxi- mam horum partem leviter aegrotasse appa- ret. {Vide Appendix a.) 8. Lugendum est tamen, etsi in hac re communi hominum sensui Doctor WooDr- ville assensisse videatur, famam minime secundam jam de vaccina multorum animos occupasse, quae, quanquam omni fide desti- tuta, ejus professione non erat delenda: sum- mas ideo laudes ei collatas plurimum ob- fuisse quo minus vaccina valeret, crede- rem. (b.)