£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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    extinct.—Such are the blessed effects of Cow- Pox!' A mighty and horrible monster* with the horns of a bull, the hind hoofs of a horse, the jaws of the krakin, the teeth and claws of a ty- ger, the tail of a cow, all the evils of Pan- dora's box in his belly, plague, pestilence, lepro- sy, purple blotches, foetid ulcers, and filthy running sores covering his body, and an at- mosphere of accumulated disease, pain and death around him, has made his appearance in the world, and devours mankind,—especially poor helpless infants,—not by scores only, or hundreds, or thousands, but by hundreds of thousands (vide Vaccinae Vindicia, p. 413 and 423). This monster has been named vaccination ; and his progressive havoc among the human race, has been dreadful and most alarming. Yet, strange to tell, this monster has found not only a multitude of friends bui worshipers, who prostrate themselves before him, and en- courage his voracious appetite. Dp not the men, the heroes—who first dared