Serious reasons for uniformly objecting to the practice of vaccination : in answere to the report of the Jennerian Society, etc.

  • Birch, John, 1745?-1815.
Date:
1806
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    hitherto forborne to subscribe it, and why I sha'l never subscribe it. To this report the-eLre, and to a very ingenious pamphlet written by Mr. James Moore, certainly the ablest and most candid writer that has ap- peared in support of Vaccination, I shall coo- fine as much as possible my remarks. I he bitterness of invective, and the unhandsome sne< i which the partisans of Vacci- nation have assailed their opponents, as they offer no argument, merit no reply. , The Report opens by stating, that the Medi- cal Council appointed twenty-five members of the Jennerian Society as a Committee to en- quire into the truth of various cases that had oceuned, exciting prejudices against Vac- cine Inoculation; and it is the result of their enquiries, that is submitted to the Public. Now,, without calling in question the judgment of the Medical Council, I must ob- serve that it became them, in a matter of such importance, to inform us who the^e twenty- five persons were. For as the Society is very numerous, comprehending many of both sexes, and of all professions, the Committee might have been formed of persons, not altogether