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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    REPORT. The Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian So¬ ciety, having been informed that various cases had occurred, which excited prejudices against Vaccine Inoculation, and tended to check the progress of that important discovery in this kingdom, appointed a committee of twenty-five of their members to in¬ quire, not only into the nature and truth of such cases, but also into the evidence respecting instances of small-pox, alleged to have occurred twice in the same person. In consequence of this reference, the Committee made diligent inquiry into the history of a number of cases, in which it was supposed that vaccination had failed to prevent the small-pox, and also of such cases of small-pox, as were stated to have happened sub¬ sequently to the natural or inoculated small-pox. In the course of their examination the Committee learned, that opinions and assertions had been ad¬ vanced and circulated, which charged the Cow-pox with rendering patients liable to particular diseases, frightful in their appearance, and hitherto unknown ; and judging such opinions to be connected with the question as to the efficacy of the practice, they thought it incumbent upon them to examine also into the validity qf these injurious statements respect¬ ing vaccination. After a very miniate investigation of these subjects^