Franklin's 16-year-old brother Benjamin joined in the campaign, accusing the pro-inoculation clergy of hypocrisy in one of his pseudonymous "Silence Dogood" letters. "I affirm it unlawful," the imaginary lady wrote, "for a Person inhealth upon any Account to receive a less Infection to avoid a greater, because Our blessed Saviour, the Great, the Skillful Physician says, He that is whole needs not a Physician, but he that is Sick."
