A Letter to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval : on the expediency and propriety of regulating by Parliamentary authority the practice of variolous inoculation, with a view to the extermination of the small-pox.

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1807
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Credit: A Letter to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval : on the expediency and propriety of regulating by Parliamentary authority the practice of variolous inoculation, with a view to the extermination of the small-pox. 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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    authoritative information on a topic, in- volving no distant speculation of supposed humanity, but the most direct, immediate, and important benefits to mankind. It is with increased satisfaction that we have seen the result of that information, as contained in the Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on vaccination: a paper not less honourable to that learned body, for the diligent and discriminating investigation which distinguishes it, than for that spirit of candour and simplicity of style, which are the most dignified and the most popular, though not the most common at- tendants of professional disquisition on con- tested questions. The College, having received His Ma- jesty's commands, in compliance wkh an Address from the House of Commons, To inquire into the state of vaccine inoculation in the United Kingdom, to report their opi- inon and observations upon that practice, 5