£30,000 for the cow-pox!!! An address (to Ld. H.P., and) to the British Parliament, on vaccination ; (of the greatest importance to mankind) wherein the report of the College of Physicians is completely confuted / By Ferdinand Smyth Stuart.

  • Stuart, John Ferdinand Smyth, 1745-1814.
Date:
1807
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Credit: £30,000 for the cow-pox!!! An address (to Ld. H.P., and) to the British Parliament, on vaccination ; (of the greatest importance to mankind) wherein the report of the College of Physicians is completely confuted / By Ferdinand Smyth Stuart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 4 turned, and extended to a very alarming * degree, accompanied with hard painful 4 tumours and blotches, which terminated u 4 in obstinate phagedenic sores and ulcers, ' resisting every internal medicine, as well as 4 all external applications. The poor pitiable * infant was constantly in a state of restless- ° ' ness, owing to the most excruciating pain, 44 4 medicines not having the smallest effect. ** * Having been in great and general practice 44 4 myself, and from the appearance of the 44 4 eruption and its obstinacy in respect to 44 4 cure, I was led to consider the cow-pox 44 4 virus as possessing a * specific scrophulous 44 4 nature* (suspected venereal taint*), or as an ' infection of the same deleterious quality : * and having experienced the good ef- u 4 fects of mercury in a vitiated state of the 44 4 blood and other juices, I was determined 44 ' to make a trial of this medicine, as most 44 4 likely to eradicate the poison out of the 44 4 system * In my hasty writing of this letter, the manuscript here perhaps not being legible, Dr. Squirrell mistook my meaning ^ and inserted the above^ instead oft( suspected venereal taint**