The vaccine contest, or, Mild humanity, reason, religion, and truth, against fierce, unfeeling ferocity, overbearing insolence, mortified pride, false faith, and desperation : being an exact outline of the arguments and interesting facts, adduced by the principal combatants on both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation; including a late official report on this subject by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society / by William Blair.

  • Blair, William, 1766-1822.
Date:
1806
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Credit: The vaccine contest, or, Mild humanity, reason, religion, and truth, against fierce, unfeeling ferocity, overbearing insolence, mortified pride, false faith, and desperation : being an exact outline of the arguments and interesting facts, adduced by the principal combatants on both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation; including a late official report on this subject by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society / by William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    # the invention. Though poor, they do not think te the lives or health of infant human beings are to be sported with, to gratify the chimerical specu- lations of dangerous curiosity. Are affectionate parents, during this bloody contest, to he robbed <c of the security which small-pox inoculation af- fords ? If they any longer justify cow-poxing, they merit all they are doomed to suffer.—Let man- kind arouse from their vaccinating lethargy, and chase from their houses all who propose vacci- fl nation. Who would marry into any family, at the risk of their offspring having an hereditary, *c filthy, beastly disease ? Are men to become the sc victims of horrid, beastly, chronic diseases; vie- fC tims diseased for life; and transmit them to pos- (( terity for ages ; that a few fanatics in science may revel in wealth ? Forbid it heaven ; forbid it humanity ; forbid it reason, justice, and truth ! (e It is enough to freeze the soul with horror ! PARENT.—Oh, Doctor, pray, Doctor Bragwell, don't fly into such a violent rage. I thought Truth was mild and gentle f but, alas ! alas ! she hides her virtuous head. DOCTOR.— TheCow-poxers listen to nothing. Let not their fruitless irascibility vent itself in cc gross scurrility and abuse ; for vulgar abuse and low sneers, prove nothing, nor will they invali- date self-evident facts. The five hundred ff and four facts against the continuance of cow-pox inoculation, out of which seventy-five have diec\