Observations on the introduction to the Plan of the Dispensary for general inoculation ; with remarks on a pamphlet, entitled, "An examination of a charge brought against inoculation by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers. By John Watkinson, M.D." / by the Honble Baron T. Dimsdale.

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Observations on the introduction to the Plan of the Dispensary for general inoculation ; with remarks on a pamphlet, entitled, "An examination of a charge brought against inoculation by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers. By John Watkinson, M.D." / by the Honble Baron T. Dimsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fed*: - d apparel, the public danger becomes great and inevitable. 46 But fhoiild the poor who are proper to undergo the operation be inoculated, and. means for their iubfiftence be provided, queilions will a me rapediino the fate of their neighbours, feme df whom will be precluded from the ame advantage, by being afredted with other difeafes, and others, who have fcrong prejudices againft it, will be totally averfe to the pradfice. Is it reaforiable to bring the Small Pox to the doors of per fobs thus circumftanced, againft their confent ? One fhudders at the thought of fuch an infult to huma- nity ! But it is not only the immediate neighbours that would be endangered'; to be well informed how far the mif- chr. f might be extended, one muft take into account the iituation and condudt of the patients, and it may fafely be afferted from experience, that the fol- lowing would be found to be a true re- prefen tation.