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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    PREFACE. Although the Author has by no means been a supine or inattentive observer of the progress of vaccine inoculation, but has very faithfully en- deavoured to appreciate the facts and arguments on both sides, as so important a question required, he is not one of those who make the new practice a leading branch of his profession. He believes, how- ever, that he was among the Jirst to introduce and encourage the Cow-pox, without the impediment of exacting the usual recommendatory letters, at a pub- lic Infirmary ; from whence, likewise, he has cheer- fully and gratuitously distributed, a considerable number of charges of vaccine fluid, both in town and country. The following printed form of invi- tation was ordered to be circulated by the Governors of the Bloomsbury Dispensary, at the request of their medical officers; in consequence'of which the Author has had an opportunity of inoculating above six hundred persons, exclusive of his private pa- tients : t: Bloomsbury Dispensary, No. 62, Great Russel Street; May 15, 1802. We hereby give notice, That all poor persons u desirous of being inoculated for the Cow-pox