£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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    4th. Thornton says, that my complete ignorance is proved, by talking of my child being inoculated with laudable vaccine matter; and, in the next sentence, pronounces that all matter is pus Now it is universally allowed, that whatever is not spirit, is matter; that what- ever we can see, hear, or feel, is matter; there- fore, according to Thornton, whatever is not spirit, is pus; every thing we can see, hear, or feel, is pus, and that the whole of this material world is consequently pus. Such folly ! such nonsense ! At the same time this modest writer, this caviller on words, Dr. Robert John Thorn- ton, makes use of the very same expression throughout his pamphlet, particularly in page 376, stale matter, vaccine matter, &c.; and page 381, Fresh matter, matter from another '* person &c. &c. &c. Was there ever such matchless effrontery ?—Or if he snarls at the word laudable, he certainly shews his teeth to as little purpose, being too useless to bite, or hurt those whom he wishes to annoy ; as lauda- ble or commendable is perhaps a more appro- priate expression than any other that could have been selected,—Yet this same Dr, Robert John Thornton