She cites both her experience with a child, and the way she owed the benefit of her own conversion to the affliction of having smallpox. But the ultimate argument against inoculation, she says, is that...
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8 July 1722: The Rev. Edmund Massey preached at St Andrew's...
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8 July 1722
The Rev. Edmund Massey
preached at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, a sermon published that year as A Sermon Against the Dangerous and Sinful Practice of Inoculation.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
