Testimonies concerning vaccination and its enforcement / by scientists, statisticians, philosophers, publicists, and vaccine physicians.

  • London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.
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[1883]
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    Fifth Edition. \ fPrice 2/6 per Hundred. c T E S TI ONCERNIN AND ITS E by Scientists. IANS, Philosophers, Publicists, and Vaccine Physicians. Di<. JOHN HUNTER, the Celebrated Physiologist and Anatomist, who was acquainted with Jenner. “ The introduction by inoculation of mineral or vegetable poisons into the blood is hazardous, and in certain quantities may be destructive. But the introduction of animal products from another living body, be it a man, a cow, or even an ass, is infinitely more pernicious, because allied to it in being vitalised.” Dr. EDWARD JENNER. On the 26th of December, in the year 1799, Dr. Edward JENNER, of Berkeley, Gloucestershire (who subsequently received or was awarded ,£30,000 for his discovery), made the following statement:— “There is a disease to which the horse, from his state of domestication, is frequently subject ; the farmers have termed it ‘the Grease.’ It is an inflammation and swelling of the heel, from which issues matter, possessing properties of a very peculiar nature, which seems capable of generating a disease in the human body which bears so strong a resemblance to the small-