Volume 2

Institutes of health / [Anon].

Date:
1761
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Credit: Institutes of health / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    y cedency to the remedy of an evil : neither needs the knowledge neceflary for the one fervice, in the lead exclude the knowledge neceffary for the other. They rather im¬ ply one another, and the union of both, forms the complete merit, in virtue of which, the medical art ftands upon both its legs. But, alas! as things are in their prefent date, the curative part is extremely lame ; and we have nothing of the preven¬ tive '^5 but in lieu of it, that fidem the fitted on * Inoculation being only a preventive greater danger in the cafe of a particular difeafe, forms no exception here, where difeafe in general is meant. Yet, even the inftance of that preventive, how favor¬ able to the dodlrine of preventives ! Was merit to be ellimated rather by the nature of things, than by vul- .gar opinion, the Britilh lady who firft introduce^^ that practice in this nation, by which, in all human probability, fo many thoufands of lives have been, and