The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact ChaptersWhite, William
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The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact Chapters
White, William
Vaccination
I. The natural Small- I. The inoculated I. The inoculated
pox is a loathsome, Smallpox also is Cowpock scarcely
infectious, painful, loathsome, infectious, deserves the name of
and fatal disease. It painful, and sometimes a disease. It is not
is confined to no fatal; and, when infectious; and, in
climate, but rages in partially adopted, the opinion of the
every quarter of the spreads the contagion, most experienced
world, and destroys a and increases the practitioners has
tenth part of mankind. mortality of the never proved fatal.
disease.
II. Those who survive II. It sometimes II. It occasions no
the ravages of that occasions the same other disease. On the
dreadful distemper, maladies as the contrary, it has often
often survive only to natural Smallpox. been known to improve
be the victims of other health, and to remedy
maladies, or to drag those diseases under
out a miserable which the patient
existence worse than before laboured.
death.
III. This cruel and III. It frequently III. It leaves behind
lamentable disorder leaves behind it the no blemish, but _a
leaves behind it pits, same blemishes and Blessing_--one of
scars, and other deformities as the the greatest ever
blemishes and bodily natural Smallpox, bestowed on man--_a
deformities which which are the more perfect security
embitter life. deplorable as they against the future
are brought on by a infection of the
voluntary act. Smallpox_.
From this faithful statement of the advantages attending VACCINE
INOCULATION, it must appear evident to every unprejudiced person,
that it is the duty as well as the interest of every parent, of
every individual, and of every nation, to adopt the practice, and
to hasten
THE EXTERMINATION OF THE SMALLPOX.
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