Vaccination vindicated: being an answer to the leading anti-vaccinators / by John C. McVail.

  • McVail, John C. (John Christie), 1849-1926.
Date:
[1887]
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Credit: Vaccination vindicated: being an answer to the leading anti-vaccinators / by John C. McVail. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CIIAPTER I. THE DECREASE IN SMALL-POX MORTALITY. Introductory—Dr. Wallace's Monograph—The Reliabihty of Early and Re- cent Small-pox Statistics—Dr. Wallace's Four Propositions—London Small-pox, 1750-1850-The Decrease in Small-pox—Dr. Wallace's Argument —1838-53, 1854-71, 1872-82 — Comparative Mortality in London and the Provinces—The Incidence of Small-pox on Different Periods of Life—Optional, Obligatory, and Enforced Vaccination—Vacci- nation V. Sanitation—Small-pox Comparedwith other Zymotics—Vacci- nation an alleged Cause of Small-pox—The Protective Power of Previous Small- pox—The Counteracting Cause in London—The Prevalence of Vaccination —A Blunder and its Origin—Vaccination Returns—The St. Pancras Census.... CHAPTER II. SMALL-POX AS IT IS. Jenner's Hopes—Why Small-pox is not Extinguished—Vaccination not an Absolute Preventive—The Unvaccinated and the Imperfectly Vaccinated —The Comparative Value of Vaccinal Operations—Vaccination Marks, their Quality and Number—Small-pox, Discrete and Confluent— Russell's Diagram—Marson's Statistics—Mr. P. A. Taylor—The Value of Best Vaccination—The Need of Re-vaccination—The Increased Fatality of Small-pox—The 1870-3 Epidemic—Anti-vaccinators on the Epidemic—Baxendell, Taylor, Tebb, Milnes, White—Statistical Evolu- tion—Dr. Seaton's Report—The Verdict of the Select Committee ... 33 CHAPTER III. THE MITIGATION OF SMALL-FOX BY VACCINATION. Mitigation not a New Doctrine—Ratio of Deaths to Attacks in the Past and the Present Century—Wheeler's Statistics—Prevalence versus Mortality —Mortality among the Vaccinated—A Table of Hospital Statistics— The Value of Modern Statistics—Who are the Unvaccinated ?—Poor- Law Vaccination—The Prevalence and Fatality of other Diseases among the Vaccinated and Unvaccinated—Errors in Registration—Obliterated Marks—Medical Honesty 54