A letter to the right honourable the Earl of Liverpool, concerning the present state of vaccination : and pointing out the urgent necessity of an immediate investigation, in order to secure the safety and comfort of th public.

  • Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A letter to the right honourable the Earl of Liverpool, concerning the present state of vaccination : and pointing out the urgent necessity of an immediate investigation, in order to secure the safety and comfort of th public. 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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    43 opinion and fact connected with the subject, from all parts of Great Britain ; at the same time publicly declaring, they wish all former prejudices and opinions, on both sides, to be laid aside, and simply to state the facts, whether they have occurred after their own Vaccination, or that of any other medical practitioner. I have now only to request your Lordship's most serious attention to the view I have now presented, and to remember, that every thing I have stated on the subject, can be svibstantiated by the most satisfactory evidence. I trust your Lordship and his majesty's ministers will no longer grant the annual vote to the Vaccine Establishment, until the practice is proved to be entitled to the public patronage; and I hope that means will be instantly adopted for obtain- ing a result, which shall satisfy all parties. I can assure you, my Lord, no man despises any interested motives more than I do. I have dis- charged what seemed to me an indispensable duty ; and I trust it has fully appeared, I have been always anxious, in my different publica- tions on this subject, rather to address the judg- ment than the feelings. While my own mind acquits me of any improper motives, I shall pay but little attention to the insinuations of others. I am only sorry, that the sentiments I entertain of the Vaccine practice, accord but little with the comfort and safety, which the public have been taught it conferred; but I can conscien- tiously declare, it will afford me the highest satisfaction, to find my apprehensions ground-