Vaccination viewed as a sanitary measure with modes and facts for establishing its future permanent efficiency : being an address to the opponents of this small-pox preventive process / by J. Hands, formerly pupil under Dr. E. Jenner, the original discoverer of cow-pox efficacity.

  • Hands, Joseph.
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[1871]
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Credit: Vaccination viewed as a sanitary measure with modes and facts for establishing its future permanent efficiency : being an address to the opponents of this small-pox preventive process / by J. Hands, formerly pupil under Dr. E. Jenner, the original discoverer of cow-pox efficacity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Price Twopence. VACCINATION VIEWED AS A SANITARY MEASURE WITH MODES AND FACTS FOR ESTABLISHING ITS FUTURE PERMANENT EFFICIENCY, BEING AN ADDRESS TO THE OPPONENTS OF THIS SMALL-POX PREVENTIVE PROCESS, BY J. HANDS, M.R.C.S., F.P.S., &c„ &c. FORMERLY PUPIL UNDER IDIR,. IE- CTEISTInTEIR,, THE ORIGINAL DISCOVERER OF COW-POX EFFICACY. In answer to the memorial presented, sometime back, to the Privy Council, by certain medical men, and also in re¬ sponse to the varied public opinions, relative to the injury from, and the decay in, the efficacy and utility of vaccina¬ tion, we would suggest, (before people come to a conclu¬ sion on the subject) that they should look at the matter in question, through a few facts, which we purpose to place before them, as to the cause of this degeneracy, in the present results from vaccination. When studying this practise, under the superintendance of Dr. E. Jenner, some fifty years ago, we remember, that he was very particular, as to the subject he vaccinated, and, he was still more circum¬ spect, as to the person, from whom he procured the virus, to