N01909:7
Several reasons proving that inoculating or transplanting the small pox, is a lawful practice,…
Several reasons proving that inoculating or transplanting the small pox, is a lawful practice, and that it has been blessed by God for the saving of many a life. By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for J Edwards, 1721
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Because I have read, that in Smyrna, Constantinople, and other Places, Thousands of Lives have been saved by Inoculation, and not one of Thousands has miscarried by it. This is related by Wise & Learned Men who would not have imposed on the World a false Narrative. Which also has been published by the Royal Society; therefore a great Regard is due to it.
1. BEcause I have read, that in Smyrna, Constantinople, and other Places, Thousands of Lives have been saved by Inoculation, and not one of Thousands has miscarried by it. This is related by Wise & Learned Men who would not have imposed on the World a false Narrative. Which also has been published by the Royal Society; therefore a great Regard is due to it.
II. WE hear that several Physicians have Recommended the Practice hereof to His Majesty, as a Means to preserve the Lives of his Subjects, and that His Wise and Excellent Majesty King GEORGE, as also his Royal Highness the Prince have approved hereof, and that it is now coming into practice in the Nation. In one of the Public Prints are these Words, Inoculating the Small Pox is a safe and universally Useful Experiment. Several Worthy Persons lately arrived from England inform us, that it is a successful Practice there: If Wise & Learned Men in England, declare their Approbation of this Practice, for us to declare our Disapprobation will not be for our Honour.
II. WE hear that several Physicians have Recommended the Practice hereof to His Majesty, as a Means to preserve the Lives of his Subjects, and that His Wise and Excellent Majesty King GEORGE, as also his Royal Highness the Prince have approved hereof, and that it is now coming into practice in the Nation. In one of the Publick Prints are these Words, Inoculating the Small Pox is a safe and universally Useful Experiment. Several Worthy Persons lately arrived from England inform us, that it is a successful Practice there: If Wise & Learned Men in England, declare their Approbation of this Practice, for us to declare our Disapprobation will not be for our Honour.