The abuses and scandals of some late pamphlets in favour of inoculation of the small pox, modestly obviated, and inoculation further consider'd in... [Three lines of verse]

"The weak Artifice they use to drown all Argument from the other Side, is the Clamour of Enemies to the Ministry of this Country, tho' these Men they principally aim at are well known to be their constant Hearers, and generous Contributors towards their Support. If a Stranger to the Affair were to read their Writings, he could not think otherways than that all the Ministers of Boston are Inoculators, all at Variance with the Practitioners in Physick, in short, that they all are guilty of those Things alledg'd against a few. To vindicate the Ministry of Boston from these Insinuations; all the Town knows, that several of them have declared against Inoculation till further Light in the Practice, and many of them do not in the least meddle; we have here among our Ministers Viros Eruditione, Probitate est Rerum uste Spectabiles; that is, not only inoffensive in their Life and Conversation, but also of shining active Virtues. There are in Boston Sixteen Settled Ministers; and of them, Six only are transiently said to have by Subscription insured the Inoculated, whereof some, finding Contentions to spread among their Flocks, out of a Christian Spirit of Meekness, forbear giving further Occasions for Animosities; only Two or Three of the whole Number..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.