Pierce Dod FRS, FRCP (1683–1754) was a British physician and opponent of smallpox inoculation.
He was made a physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital from 1725 until his death, and he joined the Royal Society in 1730.
This work was countered by doctors J. Kirkpatrick, W. Barrowby, and I. Schomberg in A letter to the real and genuine Pierce Dod, MD, exposing the low absurdity of a late spurious pamphlet falsely ascrib'd to that learned physician: with a full answer to the mistaken case of a natural small-pox, after taking it by inoculation, by Dod Pierce, MS.
They argued that only someone afraid of losing money from his clinical practice would oppose inoculations that prevented disease.
The satire caused Dod a great deal of professional damage, both to his reputation and his practice.