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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    tc promulgation of the fa£t—and, if his friends <c pleafc, for the application of his knowledge, <c to the fpecific purpofe of his guarding again it <c a dangerous difeafe. We admit the whole im- <c portance of the objedt ; but why his claim to c< the praife of invention? (to whom then is it <c due?)” Critical Review, vol. XXXVI. p. 103. [The words enclofed in parenthefis are not in the original.] To imitate the Reviewers in their hypothetical ifs, I will beg leave to add fome other ifs, as pro¬ per companions and* expletives: If the firft man, whofe foot made an impreffion on the fand, had made an induction, which was fo natural, ot taking the impreflions from other fubfiiances; and if thefe impreflions had been taken, and conveyed on paper, or linen; then the art of printing had not been a fecret for upwards of five thoufand 4 years. However boldly the charge againfl: Dr. Jenner . is denounced, I will venture to conclude that every pradlitioner in Europe will view with con¬ tempt, infinuations equally unwarrantable and un¬ becoming. In June 1798, Dr. Jenner firft: publiflied his cc Inquiry into the Cow-pock.” It was then, and for two years afterwards, fo little underfcood by the 1