The case of receiving the small-pox by inoculation, impartially considered, and especially in a religious view / Written in the year M.DCC.XXV by David Some and now published from the original manuscript by P. Doddridge.

  • Some, David.
Date:
1750
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Credit: The case of receiving the small-pox by inoculation, impartially considered, and especially in a religious view / Written in the year M.DCC.XXV by David Some and now published from the original manuscript by P. Doddridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ceffity of making our humble Applications to the great God, to prevent our mifcarrying in it. But while I allow Inoculation to be in fome Degree hazardous, I would afk, May we not ufe Means attended with fome Dan¬ ger, when there is a Probability of being thereby delivered from greater Danger ? Of two Evils we are certainly to chufe the leaft, if we would a6l like Reasonable Creatures. Upon this Principle we fee many fubmit- ting to very dangerous Operations, without any Sufpicion of being guilty of deftroying their own Lives. Who would ever lofe an Arm, or be cot for the Stone, if it were not to avoid a greater Danger of dying? There’s a certain Hazard in Child-bearing. If we confult the Bills of Mortality, we fliall find, that about one in Sixty die in thofe Circumftances. And yet I never knew any, who held Marriage unlawful upon that Ac¬ count. The Reafon is plain : Becaufe a great¬ er Inconvenience is avoided by it, the putting an End to the Race of Mankind. Let not any fmile at the Argument 5 but confider how they can anlwer it, but by confeffing, that we may expofe our felves to Danger, for the obtaining a greater Good, or avoiding a great¬ er Evil Now to apply this general Remark to the Subjedl of our prefent Enquiry. I think it has already been abundantly proved, that the E[azard