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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.

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    of Britain, we cannot entertain a doubt, for a fingle moment, that the like generous and companionate fenti- ments would operate, and much more powerfully, to fuccour and protect our own innocent infants, the darlings of our bofoms. The nation that vo- luntarily offers a large bounty to fave the life of a negro Have, would cheer- fully and readily beftow one twen- tieth or one thirtieth part of fuch a pre- mium to preferve a Britifh child to his family and to his country. If fuch grievances and calamities were properly understood, they would foon obtain adequate redrefs. A people who are fhocked at the bare narrative of mifery, fuffered by the African flaves, on board crowded transports, or of criminals in our jails, could not behold with indif- ference, the poor helplefs children of a neighbouring cottage who, through the ignorance, the fuperftition, or the penury of the parents, are daily dying of the moft painful, and loathfome dif- C 4 temper