Volume 1

A sketch of a plan to exterminate the casual small-pox from Great Britain, and to introduce general inoculation : to which is added, a correspondence on the nature of variolous contagion, with Mr. Dawson [et al.] and on the best means of preventing the small-pox, and promoting inoculation at Geneva, with the magistrates of the Republick.

  • Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.
Date:
1793
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Credit: A sketch of a plan to exterminate the casual small-pox from Great Britain, and to introduce general inoculation : to which is added, a correspondence on the nature of variolous contagion, with Mr. Dawson [et al.] and on the best means of preventing the small-pox, and promoting inoculation at Geneva, with the magistrates of the Republick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    bury propofed to offer a reward of thirty pounds for the prefervation of every additional life. It was computed that the annual expence of thefe rewards might amount to feventeen tboufand pounds, if, by their influence, five hundred and fixty-feven lives could be faved. The fum of money was con- fiderable, and propofed in an irregular manner, to that body of the legiflature which confeffedly has no right to im- pofe taxes. Yet no latent principle of avarice, or, what is a much more powerful motive in an Englifhman's breaft, no conftitutional jealoufy, pro- duced a fingle diffenting voice, in either houfe of parliament. folidtedfor If our criminals, who undoubtedly yiftimsofthe ^ moft ih dafs Qf the imall-pox. -11 whole community, and the negro flaves, .a race of people of fo degraded a character, and iituated in fo dif- tant a region, have obtained a liberal portion of the pity, and of the bounty of