A CRITICISM upon Dr. ROBERT WALKER'S late PUBLI- BY ALEXANDER ABERDOUR SURGEON IN ALLOA. Omnis homines qui fefe ftudent præftare cæteris animalibus, fumma ope niti decet, ne vitam SALLUST. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR J. ELDER, No. 7. NORTH BRIDGE-STREET- INTRODUCTION. IT may perhaps seem surprising to engage in a fubject that has been fo often handled by the learned of the faculty. It would, however, be no difficult task to prove, that the subject is not fufficiently understood; and that the fmall-pox, of which I am about to treat, hath, for a series of ages, baffled the skill of the most eminent physicians, and still continues to spread its dire effects among mankind. To what then are we to attribute the mortality arifing from this disease? is it owing to its incurable nature; or are we to afcribe the cause to the imperfection of our art? The latter I will readily admit; but the former I cannot altogether reject. |