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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    <c (without any expense or letter of recommendation), may attend the Dispensary for that purpose, on *' Tuesdays, at half-past twelve o'clock. And we recommend to those who regard the health of th.eir children, or the safety of their friends and 'J neighbours, to avail themselves of the opportunity *c now offered: as experience has shewn, in many thousands of instances, that the Cow-pox is com- pletely effectual in preventing the Small-pox ; that it is so mild, as to be never attended with any ha- <c zard, or even a personal blemish ; and is not com- municable by the breath or perspiration, but by ft inoculation only. J. Carmichael Smyth, Consulting Physician. George Pinckard, Attending Physician. Edward Jennek, M. D. Superintendant of the Vaccine Inoculation. *£ William Blair, Surgeon. During the preceding year, it was too manifest that prejudices and apprehensions were assiduously stirred up, by the different objectors to vaccine prac- tice ; some of whose names and deeds will probably be long remembered by the public, with feelings of honest indignation. The influence of false rumours and distorted facts operated so strongly in the district of Bloomsbury and St. Giles, a3 to preclude even a single person from applying for inoculation at that Dispensary, after the 12th day of November last,