"The disease has hitherto been confined to particular districts; and it has been observed, that where the Cow Pox has prevailed, the Small Pox has been much less frequent, and much less fatal."

"Did you make a convert of the obstinate antivaxinist at Lello?"

"You see by the papers how I'm annoyed by a set of blockheads who write about the imperfection of the cowpox, as a vaccine, without any knowledge scarcely of its phenomena."

"How wonderful that this horrid pestilence should at this time even have an existence in our island . . . A Physician from Copenhagen call'd on me today, and express'd his astonishment at an opposition…"

"It is a pity that the practice of inoculation has not been more generally adopted; for if it had, many lives might have been saved."