Some remarks upon Dr. Wagstaffe's Letter, and Mr. Massey's Sermon against inoculating the small-pox: with an account of the inoculation of several children. And some reasons for the safety and security of that practice. In three letters to a friend ... / [Samuel Brady].

  • Brady, Samuel, 1680-1748.
Date:
1722
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Credit: Some remarks upon Dr. Wagstaffe's Letter, and Mr. Massey's Sermon against inoculating the small-pox: with an account of the inoculation of several children. And some reasons for the safety and security of that practice. In three letters to a friend ... / [Samuel Brady]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    five Small-Pox > Sure, fomething elfe than an impartial Search after Truth, muft tempt a Man to write thus. If Dr. Timoni had af- ferted any thing fo wild, we might have been apt to believe he was impofed on, had feen little himfelf, but took it upon Trujl from thofe who, thro Ignorance or TDefign, deceiv'd him, as the Doctor expreffeth himfelf in rela¬ tion to that Gentleman, pag. 56. He makes much the lame Work, pag. 57, 58, with the minute Differences between 27- moni and Tylarini, Matters of no Moment but to amufe the Reader. Tho’ the Difcharge at the Incijions may not perhaps leffenthe number of Pocks much, pag. 59. as their Difcharge ismoftly after the Eruption, yet, may not that contribute great¬ ly to the Safety of the Patient, as we ob- ferve that of Salivation does in the common Flux-kind ? Nay more, is it not poffible, the Body may be thereby freed of what occafions the Small-Tox, and be fecur’d againft that Diftcmper, tho the Puftles fhould not run their Courfe fo regularly, as in the common way ? But let this be left to Time. I would tempt none to this Pra&ice by Reafons not fully warranted by Experience. i*ag. 60. he alledges, every Surgeon knows a Wound made in any Tart, will inflame, fuppurate, and fo forth. But, will fuch a fmall Incifion, in a good Conftitution, with¬ out any afliftancc, by degrees grow larger and deeper, and difcharge more than many com¬ mon