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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    ( 11 ^ moil Ifjues, and then dry up of its own ac¬ cord, as thefe ufually do as the Small-Vox go off? Do Incifions made for IJJiies, with¬ out any help, do fo ? To conclude; The only two Inftances he has brought to prove the Danger of this Prac¬ tice are difputedy and thofe brought to prove, it not Preventive are fallacious ; i may there¬ fore fafely affert his declaiming Conclufion to be fo too, fince the whole ftrefs of the Argu¬ ment lies in thefe two Particulars. Since I have followed the Dodor thus from Page to Page, and conhder’d every thing which, as I judge, you will think requires it, as far as the compafs of a Letter will al¬ low, and have run into a length far beyond my firft Intention 5 I have no Inclination to fpend Time in making it corred, and there¬ fore defire you will overlook fuch Slips as hade and careleffnefs have occafioned: But if I have miftaken our Author, given a wrong Turn to, or riot anfwer’d any thing of mo¬ ment in his Letter, corred me freely. As ail I am more particularly interefted in are (I hope) fecur’d, I have no other concern for the Succefs of this Method, than as a Member of the Commonwealth; but fliall have my fliarc of Advantage if it take not. I think it has not the common Vogue, as the Dodor alledges 5 therefore neither Popularity nor Ad¬ vantage can lead our Profeffion into it 5 but whenever I (hall have as good Reafon to believe it tmfaf.e,, or ineffectual^ as I now r have /