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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    the result of their inquiries has been submitted to the Medical Council; and from the Report of the Com- mittee it appears : L That most of the cases, which have been brought forward as instances of the failure of vac- cination to prevent the small-pox, and which have been the subjects of public attention and conversa- tion, are either wholly unfounded or grossly misre- presented. II. That some of the cases are now allowed, by the very persons who first related them, to have been erroneously stated. III. That the statements of such of those cases as are published, have, for the most part, been-care- fully investigated, ably discussed, and fully refuted, by different writers on the subject. IV. That notwithstanding the most incontestable proofs of such misrepresentations, a few medical men have persisted in repeatedly bringing the same un- founded and refuted reports, and misrepresentations, before the public; thus perversely and disingenuously labouring to excite prejudices against vaccination. V. That in some printed accounts adverse to vac- cination, in which the writers had no authenticated facts to support the opinions they advanced, nor any reasonable arguments to maintain them, the subject has been treated with indecent and disgusting le- vity ; as if the good or evil of society were fit objects for sarcasm and ridicule.