Observations on Baron Dimsdale's Remarks on Dr. Lettsom's Letter to Sir Robert Barker, and George Stacpoole, Esq.; respecting general inoculation / [John Coakley Lettsom].

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1779
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Credit: Observations on Baron Dimsdale's Remarks on Dr. Lettsom's Letter to Sir Robert Barker, and George Stacpoole, Esq.; respecting general inoculation / [John Coakley Lettsom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    marks, afferts, that “ this Inoculation was “ conduced exaftly in the fame manner * “ that he has recommended in his writings; “ and that fuch as were unwilling to fubmit “ to the operation, took all poffible care “ to avoid intercourfe with the infefted.” Here, however, he is certainly miftaken.— * Precautions or reftriftions in a place already full of contagion, would have been abfurd ; nor indeed did any fuch exift. No perfons, as I have been credibly informed, quitted the Town, or confined themfelves to their houfes, or in faft did any thing which they had not been ufed to do.^ Previous * None of thofe few, who had not had the difeafe, and did not chufe to be inoculated, contracted it in the na¬ tural way, after the Inoculation took place.—If they un¬ luckily had, Inoculation would have been blamed for it, though thefe very perfons would have been fubjeCted to as much or more hazard from the progrefs which the natural difeafe would certainly have made through the town. An Inoculation in a large town (fuppofed to be D Bedford] /