Observations on the comparative prevalence, mortality, and treatment of different diseases / illustrated by abstracts of cases.

  • Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834
Date:
1813
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    nevertheless, equally well founded in truth and nature as a principle of moral science, that the dependence of individuals on each other is such, that neither social institutions, nor even the human species under any form, could exist without the operation of the kind affections, and of practical beneficence, which are, at the same time, the main constituents of all that is understood by the name of virtue, and of whatever is amiable and excellent in the human character. It seems, therefore, hardly necessary, and almost impertinent, in addressing men of cultivated minds and correct principles, such as those who compose the professions of phy- sic and surgery, to refute the fallacious reasoning above-mentioned; and to remark that it is our paramount duty, and ought to be our unceasing study, to preserve the lives and to alleviate the sufferings of all those who seek our assistance. *,,* Since this Supplement was sent to the press, Dr. STANGER, Physician to the Foundling Hospital, has stated to the Society, that he had ascertained by an examination of the records of that hospital, that out of a hundred and thirty-one patients who had undergone vaccination, and had afterwards had the measles, two only had died. It appears from the same records that out of a hundred and thirty-one cases of measles in children, who had previously had small-pox, eleven proved fatal. ‘This evidence is conclusive, to the extent that it goes, that small-pox produces no predisposition to pass through measles in a milder way, and that vaccination has at least no prejudicial influence. . de