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Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox. By…
Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox. By the learned Dr. Emanuel Timonius, and Jacobus Pylarinus. With some remarks thereon. : To which are added, a few queries in answer to the scruples of many about the lawfulness of this method. / Published by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston.Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox. By the learned Dr. Emanuel Timonius, and Jacobus Pylarinus. With some remarks thereon. : To which are added, a few quaeries in answer to the scruples of many about the lawfulness of this method. / Published by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston.
Boston: : Sold by S. Gerrish at his shop in Corn-Hill., 1721
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III. It is Objected, That you Presume upon Providence in this Essay for the Prevention of the Small Pox; for you don't know whether you shall ever have the Small Pox, or no. I Answer, But what if it be as likely that I shall have it, as it is that my House will take Fire, when my Neighbours an Inch and half off, is in Flames. Pray, sit still, my Neighbour, your House is not yet on Fire: The Almighty can preserve it. But I Enquire, whether this Objection will not lie against all the Preventive Physic in the World? I don't Infallibly know, that I shall ever suffer the Disease I am going to prevent.
III. It is Objected, That you Presume upon Providence in this Essay for the Prevention of the Small Pox; for you don't know whether you shall ever have the Small Pox, or no. I Answer, But what if it be as likely that I shall have it, as it is that my House will take Fire, when my Neighbours an Inch and half off, is in Flames. Pray, sit still, my Neighbour, your House is not yet on Fire: The Almighty can preserve it. But I Enquire, whether this Objection will not lie against all the Preventive Physick in the World? I don't Infallibly know, that I shall ever suffer the Disease I am going to prevent.
IV. The Objection here is, I make my self Sick, when I am Well. But I again say, Will any Man decry all Preventing Physic, as Unlawful? Why do our Physicians encourage People every Spring and Fall to take it? Don't People take the Poison of a Vomit into their very Stomachs, to prevent a Sickness a thousand times less to be feared, than the Small Pox? Why may not I as well take a Poison into my Arm, or my Leg, to prevent ⟨p. 20⟩such a Malady. Many have Died of a Vomit. It is not yet known, that any one ever Died of the Operation, that is now so cavilled at. To say that our SAVIOUR's words, The whole need not a Physician, forbid all preventing Physic, is a gross abuse of them. Besides, I am not whole, while I have the Fuel of the Small Pox lodging in me.
IV. The Objection here is, I make my self Sick, when I am Well. But I again say, Will any Man decry all Preventing Physick, as Unlawful? Why do our Physicians encourage People every Spring and Fall to take it? Don't People take the Poison of a Vomit into their very Stomachs, to prevent a Sickness a thousand times less to be feared, than the Small Pox? Why may not I as well take a Poison into my Arm, or my Leg, to prevent