Volume 1

Inoculation made easy : containing a full and true account of the method practised in the county of Essex ... The whole art being laid down in so clear and easy a method, as to render any one capable of inoculating themselves and others, with the greatest ease and safety. With a true receipt to make the preparative powders, repellent pills, and the punch used in inoculation.

Date:
1766
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Credit: Inoculation made easy : containing a full and true account of the method practised in the county of Essex ... The whole art being laid down in so clear and easy a method, as to render any one capable of inoculating themselves and others, with the greatest ease and safety. With a true receipt to make the preparative powders, repellent pills, and the punch used in inoculation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t £' 1 t XV 3 the Public, the fur pricing falutary Service refulthig will Ipeak mofS for the Author than any pompous Apology. Difcoveries of any Kind, however rational or beneficial, are ge¬ nerally received with fome Degree of Dubiety 2 It mud not theie- fore feetn flrange if this of mine fhould be objedted to by fome* who, for want of other Arguments, will quarrel with it on a religious Account: But to thofe good People I fhall {late this Cafe of Con¬ ference by obferving, That the Almighty God in his great Mercy to Mankind hath taught us ajlemedy to be ufed to prevent the fatal Effedts of the Small Pox9 upon the Ufe of which, the Patient will be unattended with thofe direful and dreadful Apprehenfions, fo long the Companions of this Diftemper ; and in confequence of the Means here offered, neither Health nor Life in Danger. To thefe People I appeal, Whether a Chriftian fnay not employ this Remedy, and be very thankful to a Supreme Being for his Good Providence in caufing Mankind to be able to make a Difcovery, fo beneficial and valuable in 'M Nature; and the peculiar Blefiing attending the Succefs thereof, evidently to be produc’d by the Thoufands which have happily and fafely recovered without Pain, or even Confinement to their Beds. Ml , h, I * > U Butpoffioly there rriay be thofe, whom no Arguments can prevail upon. I fhall therefore fpend no chore Time in the Attempt to convince them of the Lawfulneis and Goodnefs in the Practice of Inoculation, but refer them to Experience, which will certainly open the Eyes-of thofe few Oppofers to this lafeand falutary Method The whole of which I have endeavoured to lay down in a plain and eafy (tho’not elegant) Drefs; for ifly Endeavour is to be underftood brt-eVe.ryLBod‘V and JheReader may depend that no Medicine is here offered but what is founded upon, and is the Rel'ult of, Ion- Obler- vanon and Experience. HiX Khali conclude with obferving, that thofe who make ufe of ’the Means here offered them will be fufficiently convinced of the Humanity and Integrity of the Author. 7 ' y INOCULATION 9