An apology, for differing in opinion from the authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews; on 1. Literary communications. 2. Variolous and vaccine inoculation. 3. Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine inoculation. 4. The means of preventing febrile contagion. 5. The establishment of charitable institutions / [John Coakley Lettsom].

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An apology, for differing in opinion from the authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews; on 1. Literary communications. 2. Variolous and vaccine inoculation. 3. Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine inoculation. 4. The means of preventing febrile contagion. 5. The establishment of charitable institutions / [John Coakley Lettsom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ SECTION II. , ’ i ON VARIOLOUS AND VACCINE INOCULATION. IN June 1798, Dr. Jenner publifhed his “In¬ quiry into the Cow-pox,” which was followed by feveral interefting performances, in proof of the fecurity and importance of the practice of vaccine inoculation. So long afterwards as July 1800, the Reviewers not only continued their oppoficion to it, but • recommended the inoculation of the fmall-pox, in the mod; unqualified manner, in confequence of Dr. Trotter’s propofition to in¬ troduce the cow-pock into the fleet, which I dial! give in their own words. Dr.