Volume 1

Remarks on a letter to Sir Robert Barker ... and George Stacpoole upon general inoculation, by John Coakley Lettsom ... / [Thomas Dimsdale].

  • Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.
Date:
1779
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Credit: Remarks on a letter to Sir Robert Barker ... and George Stacpoole upon general inoculation, by John Coakley Lettsom ... / [Thomas Dimsdale]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exceeds the fum of evil. But here alfo he has refted the balance of the account, upon his own pofitive affertion, without mentioning the inflances of good or evil that were noticed. The anfwer therefore given to the for¬ mer paragraph, is applicable to this. But if the phyficians to this fociety fhould per- fift in their opinions, that the good refult- ing from their mode of pradtice, is great¬ er than the evil, although unfupported by any other of the profeffion; it well deferves ✓ confideration, how far they will be jufti- fied in a mode of practice certainly danger¬ ous to the lives of others. Do not thefe gentlemen know that the conftitution of this country is fo tender, refpedting the invafion of private property, that even a fmall piece of land, to widen a publick road, cannot be taken without the fandtion of the legiflature, or confent of the owner ? Shall then the health and life '