A letter to a friend on the subject of inoculation : on which the reasons for the practice are considered and enforced, and its consistency with our duty to God, and to society, asserted and defended / By Daniel Cox.

  • Daniel Cox
Date:
1757
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Credit: A letter to a friend on the subject of inoculation : on which the reasons for the practice are considered and enforced, and its consistency with our duty to God, and to society, asserted and defended / By Daniel Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { 1° ) Next, as to the calculation concerning Its fuccefs.—This is, I fuppofe, a matter not to be fettled with any very precife accuracy : nor is it, for the defence of the practice, abfolutely necefiary ; it is enough that there is an acknowledged great fuperiority of fuc¬ cefs, which the artificial claims over the na¬ tural way of infection. Among about two thoufand inoculated patients, for fome years paft, under the care of two or three eminent burgeons of this city, there have not been above two or three mifearriages. A mer- chant of St. Chriftophers, when the Small¬ pox raged in a neighbouring iiland, with his own hands inoculated three hundred of his negroes, from the ages of five to thirty- five, without' loling one, as Dr. Mead has informed us in a treatife of his on the Small-pox; others may not have fucceeded fo well, nor indeed was the fuccefs fo appa¬ rent on the firft introduction of the pra&ice among us, as it is at this day.—In the Small¬ pox Hofpital they have loft but three out of 724. Two died out of the firft 13 1, and but one out of the laft 593, as their printed account
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