The vaccine contest ... being an exact outline of the arguments ... adduced by ... both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation; including a late official report on this subject / by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society.

  • Blair, William, 1766-1822.
Date:
1806
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Credit: The vaccine contest ... being an exact outline of the arguments ... adduced by ... both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation; including a late official report on this subject / by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    % devoted victims to the filthy project, are but as a <k' drop of water added to the sea ! There’s scarcely “ a street, lane, court, or alley, through London, “ which does not afford some disastrous circum- “ stances arising from Cow-pox inoculation.- In all 4 “ parts of England, and on the Continent, may be <c found innumerable similar disasters. Whoever “ reads the public papers, will perceive advertise- <c ments of the venders of Velno’s Vegetable Syrup, “ declaring the numerous applications for that eele- “ brated remedy to remove the horrid effects of “ Cow-pox inoculation.” PARENT.—Passing strange ! Are you, then, so perversely incredulous, when regular and authorized practitioners speak ; but so completely credulous, when irregular and unauthorized empirics puff off their quack medicines in the “ public papers ?” If your “ visible, indubitable, and self-evident facts” are built on such a sandy foundation as this. Doctor Bragwell; I must acknowledge the world has equal reason to believe the pretensions of Dr. Rowley, Dr. Squirrel, Dr. Brodurn, Dr. Moseley, or “ the tc venders of Velno’s celebrated remedy.” If you ex¬ pect me. Sir, to believe your bold assertion, that the five hundred and four unfavourable cases which you have so diligently collected <c are but as a drop op <c water” compared “ to the sea,” I must de¬ mand some better proof than your mere word, or the ipse dixit of your advertising fraternity. DOCTOR.—“ There is scarcely a week passes “ that I do not prescribe for some miserable case i)