An examination of a charge brought against inoculation, by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers / [John Watkinson].

  • Watkinson, John, M.D
Date:
1777
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Credit: An examination of a charge brought against inoculation, by De Haen, Rast, Dimsdale, and other writers / [John Watkinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Baron Dimfdale, indeed, afierts, that Irt- ftances of a contrary kind have frequently fallen within his obfervation. But, as the Baron does not feem to have been aware of the great influence of the epidemic conftitution of the air—it is poffible that what he lliould have attributed to this caufe, he has fometimes imputed to Am¬ ple contagion.—Be that as it may, a writer in the Monthly Ledger, * under the fignature of J. S. who had an opportu¬ nity of feeing the practice of inoculation in the country where thefe inftances hap¬ pened, fpeaks of the confequences of it in a language very different from that which is held by the Baron. <£ I have been witnefs, fays he, to the progrefs of inoculation, from the intro¬ duction of the Suttonian method, thro’ a ve¬ ry confiderable part of a populous coun¬ try : at the introdudfion of that method, the fubiedls obnoxious to the difeafe were more numerous in proportion to the ex¬ empts, than they could poffibfy be in London at any period. Baron Dimfdale under