Papers relating to the history and practice of vaccination.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health
Date:
1857
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Credit: Papers relating to the history and practice of vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTEN T S. I. LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF THE BOARD Enumeration of appended documents, and heads of proposed inquiry - 1. Small-pox before the Discovert of Vaccination - Dangers of natural small-pox - - - - - - Different circumstances under which it has prevailed - Among remote populations - - - In civilized countries - - - Hlustrated in royal families - - - - - Mutilation and subsequent ill-health of many who were not killed Habitual fears of the disease ------ Commencement of the eighteenth century - - - - - Inoculation of small-pox - Introduction of the practice in England - - - Objections raised against its use - - Its advantages - - - - - Its disadvantages - - - - - - - Its tendency to diffuse the infection of small-pox, and to cause an increased mortality ------ Dr. Heberden’s estimate of this evil - - This objection almost insuperable - - - State of the case sixty years ago - - - - Mr. Moore’s estimate of the success of medicine against small-pox down to the end of the eighteenth century .... - - 2. The Earlt History of Vaccination - - - - - Popular tradition on the efficacy of accidental cow-pox - - Jenner - - - ----- His first publication - ------ The protective influence of cow-pox established, and its inoculability from the cow ------- Necessity for this demonstration - - - - Partial anticipations of Jenner’s practice - - Propagability of cow-pox from person to person - Sources of fallacy to be guarded against - Vaccination ------ Its first performance in London - - - t Universal corroboration of Jenner’s statements - - - - Conclusiveness of these facts under certain qualifications - Scientific meaning of cow-pox - - - - - Recent researches : their results and authors - Theoretical interest of these observations - - ~ The subject of vaccination first brought before Parliament - - First Parliamentary Committee: its Report - First Jennerian Institution - - - - Early prejudices against vaccination; compared with former prejudices against inoculation of small-pox - Prognostics, denunciations, and fables - - - - Last appeals - - - - Page i i ii ii ii ii iii v vi vi vii vii vii viii viii ix ix ix x X xi xi xi xi xii xii xii xii xii xiii xiii xiii xiii xiii xiv xiv XV xvi xvi xvii xvii xvii xviii
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