A treatise on the lues bovilla, or, cow pox / [Benjamin Moseley].

  • Moseley, Benjamin, 1742-1819
Date:
1805
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Credit: A treatise on the lues bovilla, or, cow pox / [Benjamin Moseley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not be a preventive of the Small Pox.—For, on the principles of pathology, and analogy; from the laws of the animal ceconomy, and the want of reciprocity between the two diseases, it is impossible to believe, without an entire subver- sion of our reason, that either should render the human frame unsusceptible of the-other. The Small Pox is not only destitute of af- . finity to the Cow Pox, but it has no affinity to any other disease whatever.—And the Small Pox, can only be mentioned with the Cow Pox, to illustrate their mutual dissimilarity. The introducing a bestial humour into the human frame,. besides, was not in my mind, in the most favourable constitutions, a matter of indifference, in respect to future health; and from analogous circumstances, J was not with- out apprehension, that in some habits, the most dreadful consequences might ensue. ‘Time and Experience have at length proved, that | was not influenced by erroneous conjee- tures. Blindness,