A serious address to the public on the practice of vaccination : in which the late failure of that operation in the family of Earl Grosvenor is particularly adverted to. Sold for the benefit of the Portuguese sufferers.

  • Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834.
Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A serious address to the public on the practice of vaccination : in which the late failure of that operation in the family of Earl Grosvenor is particularly adverted to. Sold for the benefit of the Portuguese sufferers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    by Small-pox, according to the Bills of Mor- tality, which do not comprehend, by far, the whole population of this metropolis. When it is farther considered, that there are large por- tions of the most populous parts of the globe in which the Plague has never been known, and some climates and seasons are even unsusceptible of it; that in the greater number of places it's ravages have been short and transient, and at long intervals, and that the largest quarter of the globe, commonly called the New World, has never yet felt this scourge; it appears a trifling- evil in comparison of the Small-pox, from the unceasing havock of which, no kindred nor nation is exempt. In order to impress an adequate idea of the magnitude of this evil, it is needless here to dwell on the agonizing sufferings of the victims, carried off in the most interesting season of life, and the heart-rending affliction of the surviving relatives; for though we have witnessed, of late, an incredible degree of apathy and indifference to these calamities, the great bulk of mankind must have known them from their observation, or felt them in their experience. There was a period in which any proposal for extirpating, or even mitigating, this evil, would have been regarded as either the idle dream of a wrong-headed enthusiast, or the crude conceit of some presumptuous fool. In the course, how-