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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    <c or other. I am prescribing every day for all “ those horrid complaints which have followed Cow- “ poxing. The parents and friends in general are cc so exasperated against Cow-pox, that they seldom £C apply to the vaccinators.” PARENT.—This is, I think, an additional reason ‘ i . J, ' t ... v for not crediting your tale of woe to its full ex¬ tent ; as it may be supposed, under such favourable circumstances, that you not only would amply repay yourself for all this disinterested trouble, but also might have obtained a clear and particular account of those other suffering thousands” in every street, lane, court, and alley through London. DOCTOR.—“ I am ready to meet publicly the “ whole host of vaccinators, or their protectors, to cc DEMONSTRABLY PROVE ALL MY ALLEGATIONS true —but £C humanum est errare,” and “ any i ' . . „ 4 * ’ : ' • » *' -1 ? ’ ‘ * • errors in the statement of facts will be readily corrected.” “ The vaccinators, besides deluding parents, tarn- cc pering with, or bribing the unfortunate victims to “ vaccination, threaten them unmercifully with “ ruin, if they dare to disclose vaccination errors. L * . ' '• < f ’ • .. * “ Others are cajoled, and forced to say or do any ic thing vaccination fallacy chooses to dictate. They cc endeavoured to crush to atoms every cool ob- tc server and reasoner, who dared to examine their % . , 1 ' ' * I ‘ A. * ,’*}•' • 1 ' i €f doctrines. Thus the most sacred truths were per- u verted by artifice and low stratagem. Mankind “ have been so repeatedly deceived, that if vacci- • „ '• S.t '• • : i • A ’• > V W < . * • • - ■ . • ^ * ' '