Vaccination impartially reviewed : being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association / by Ferdinand E. Jencken.

  • Jencken, Ferdinand Edward, 1823-1881.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Vaccination impartially reviewed : being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association / by Ferdinand E. Jencken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IMPARTIALLY REVIEWED. 1st. The actual value of vaccination as a preventive of smallpox; embracing in this part the question whether vaccination, as a preventive, retains its poiver. 2nd. The dangers of vaccination from the intro- duction of other diseases into the organism, and the extent to which the value of vaccination is reduced by such dangers. Philosophers have ever been guilty of two grave errors—they have either endeavoured to pursue nature into infinity, or they have sought to estab- lish an absolute rule bJferd. where no positivity could exist. Both were alike mistaken, for if, as finite beings, we are limited to a certain range of research, beyond which we cannot trespass without treading upon the perilous and fallacious grounds of mystic speculation, we, on the contrary, by vainly setting up the absolute where all is transmutation and advancement, violate one of the greatest laws of *1