A review of the early vaccination controversy with an original letter by Jenner referring to it, and to the spread of vaccination to the Spanish possessions in America, the Philippines and other European settlements in the Orient / [Philip King Brown].

  • Brown, Philip King, 1869-1940.
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: A review of the early vaccination controversy with an original letter by Jenner referring to it, and to the spread of vaccination to the Spanish possessions in America, the Philippines and other European settlements in the Orient / [Philip King Brown]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the method unworthy of a place even in the ear- liest edition. In a short biography of Jenner closing with an apologetic paragraph, is the only meagre account of Jenner’s great discovery. The iith edition gives a fairly satisfactory historical review of the established facts of vaccination. In presenting to you the status of the contro- versy as defined within the first few years of Jen- ner’s announcement of his discovery, I have re- viewed articles published at the time and espe- cially those referred to in one of Jenner’s letters to a friend, which letter fell into my hands through a collector and which reads as follows: Cheltenham, 22 Nov., 1806. The Rev. Mr. Dibbin, Kensington. My dear Sir: I have seen the Edinburgh Review, and a most gratifying sight it was. Mosely and his adherents had before called down many a pelting storm upon their heads, but this tornado must I think annihilate them. The author or authors are per- haps not perfectly conscious of the immensity of good they have done. The Pen of Mosely, I am confident, has slain more than the sword of Bonaparte. This admirable Critique should be universally read. Rut this cannot be expected while it is exhibited in its present shape only; and I am at a loss to know how it can obtain circulation in a detach’d form. But among your brethren of the Press you will soon I imagine be able to tell me. It should pursue Mosely’s botik in all directions, as an antidote to its Poison. Woodbine Cottage looks beautiful even in death, for Winter has apparently killed all its vegetable ornaments. Our Fd. is going on—Mount Pleas-