£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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    thildren by the cow-pox. But his intentions1 (as it evidently appears) were to defame and scandalize asserted, that no dreadful event ever has happened, though up- wards of four millions have been inoculated, bui in our family, you will believe the anxiety with which we shall wait your answer.—I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, C. Watts, Nov* 14th, 1804. 35, St. Mary Axe, Leadenhall-streeti ANSWER. Madam> Billericay, 17th November, 180& In answer to yours of the 14th, which I have just received, relating to a child I lost in that filthy, abominable, beastly disease, the cow-pox, I beg leave to inform you, that I communicated the case to Dr. Squirrell, of Soho-square, who, as well as Dr. Moseley, and Dr. Rowley, I understand, has published it, in the exposure of the real effects of that detestable disease (so precipitately, so absurdly, and wickedly introduced into the human system) in separate works or treatises on the vaccine pock, which these respectable physicians have lately written, collected, and pub- lished, and to them I refer you. In the mean time, I shall answer that part of your letter which you have laid the greatest stress upon. The place where the matter was inserted in the child's arm inflamed, spread to the extent of a dollar, and be- came incrusted and black, about the sixteenth or seventeenth day. There were no pustules on the arm, or any part of the body ; but most obstinate phagedenic ulcers broke out in seve- ral places, particularly about his hips, and resisted every inten- tion of cure, and all the ingenuity and judgment of a medical gentleman