The 1830 New Year's gift to the world : in a short treatise on ... the small pox virus, wherein it is proved to be ... harmless and beneficial, if judiciously treated with practical evidences of the all-sufficiency of Morison's 'Vegetable universal medicine' / [Thomas Moat].

  • Moat, Thomas
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1830
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Credit: The 1830 New Year's gift to the world : in a short treatise on ... the small pox virus, wherein it is proved to be ... harmless and beneficial, if judiciously treated with practical evidences of the all-sufficiency of Morison's 'Vegetable universal medicine' / [Thomas Moat]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is now a great satisfaction to me to find, that what I have written before on small pox, is now verified from extensive jpractice. What can be more absurd and pernicious than the manner in which this juvenile disease is treated ? Instead ot earring off the growing peccant humours in the natural and easy way, they lay the little patient up for weeks to corrupt and rot the flesh, and force their way through the skim DEFORMING THE COUNTENANCE. The Inoculating and still more the Vaccinating humbugs must soon give way as pernicious and delusive, void of all common sense, and stifling in the bud the efforts of nature to perfect the system, and thus rear up diseased and infirm races of mankind; for, as you justly observe, this humour serves as a root or soil for all future diseases, and should have been got rid of: and mothers will feel themselves much indebted to you for putting them on the way of bringing into the world healthy, strong children, as you have already learned from those mothers who have made use of the medicine during pregnancy. I ever am, my dear Sir, your’s truly, JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist, P. B. C. H. To T. MOAT, V. P. B. C. H., Devonport.