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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    fails to excite, in envious minds, private opposition, t( AT THE EXPENSE OF HONOUR, INTEGRITY, AND u truth. Too exactly, alas ! have these just ob- servations been verified ! For, if any improvement be SUCCESSFUL, it is this; which, under God, hath stopped the horrid ravages of a fatal epidemic, in Villages, in Towns, and in Cities ; which hath ar- rested the footsteps of death, in its most horrid and ghastly forms; which already (notwithstanding the malevolence of some, and the culpable ignorance of others) hath preserved its millions to the present ge- neration, and will extend its benefits to posterity in a tenfold proportion ! Surely, in such a cause, the name of JENNER will resound (and it even now resounds through all this gloomy opposition) to the farthest limits of the globe! If the fame of the Caesars and Alexanders, who have destroyed man- kind by thousands, be transmitted to their children's children; such a discovery as this will indeed com- memorate the name of its Author (mild, modest, and unassuming as he is) to the latest period of time ! Oh, that I had the tongue of Angels to proclaim his praise! DOCTOR.— O tempora ! O mores ! PARENT.—Ah! sly Deceiver! brandedo'er and o'er, Yet still believ'd ! SURGEON.—I remember to have read, in Dr. Woodville's excellent History of Inoculation, a remark of this kind : that the writers against small-pox ino- culation, when it was originally introduced into Eng-