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Had smallpox inoculation been practised in France, it would have saved thousands of lives
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- Voltaire French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
The Chinese, indeed, do not communicate this distemper by inoculation, but at the nose, in the same manner as we take snuff. This is a more agreeable way, but then it produces the like effects; and proves at the same time that had inoculation been practised in France it would have saved the lives of thousands.
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↗Letters on England (1733 English edition, ed. Henry Morley, 1894)gutenberg.org
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