An apology, for differing in opinion from the authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews; on 1. Literary communications. 2. Variolous and vaccine inoculation. 3. Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine inoculation. 4. The means of preventing febrile contagion. 5. The establishment of charitable institutions / [John Coakley Lettsom].

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An apology, for differing in opinion from the authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews; on 1. Literary communications. 2. Variolous and vaccine inoculation. 3. Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine inoculation. 4. The means of preventing febrile contagion. 5. The establishment of charitable institutions / [John Coakley Lettsom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they are not always equally clear-fighted. I have therefore placed their own affertions in fuch an ap- pofite point of view that they may be better enabled to read them, and explain their different im¬ port. CRITICAL REVIEW, Vol. XXXII. p. 443. « First Assertion. “ The Nurses and at- 4< tendants should occa- “ sionally go into the open “ air, and expose them- “ selves, if possible, to a “ breeze; a little red wine, “ or a decoction of the ** Peruvian bark, may be “ also drank, in the worst “ situations; and, should “ any bad taste be per- “ ceived in the mouth and “ throat, it should be im- “ mediately gargled, and “ washed with Brandy. “ After which, about a ta- “ bie spoonful should be •* swallowed.” <P CRITICAL REVIEW. Vol. XXXy.I. p. 92. Explanation. “ Among the preserva. “ tives against infection “ we had mentioned a lit- “ tie Brandy, to wash the “ mouth and gargle the “ throat, when any bad “ taste was perceptible in “ either or both. It has “ unfortunately happened, “ either from ignorance “ or inattention, that this “ direction has been con- sidered as superfluous, “ because every bad taste c< must be perceived in the “ mouth or throat. We “ say from ignorance “ because Linnaeus, Bor- > “ gius, and others who “ speak of the organs of “ taste, mention both, with ** the instances of such a 44 sub-