£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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    Unued suffering agonies that rent our lv arts and souls* to pieces, Mrs. S. vS. and Hannah sitting up with him, I went to bed to get some rest, being fatigued and ill j, but could hear his shrieks and groans the whole time. * October 1st. I got up at two o'clock this morning, and our hearts were torn to pieces to see and hear the sufferings of our poor innocent dying child, lying in Mrs. S. S's. and Han- nah's laps, alternately, suffering all the tortures (too great for the strongest man to endure) for our sins—not for his own,—for he cannot have been guilty of any j and a sweet tempered, smiling cherub he was, when free from extreme pain, which he scarcely has been for six months of his short life of six months and twen- ty-two days:—Finding the blister (which had been applied yes- terday) not rising, I took it off, fomented the place with warm milk and water, and applied spermaceti ointment. After this he appeared evidently easier, but his pulse was almost gone, and his tongue extremely dry and sore. I went to Mr. Canadine for some syrup of roses to moisten it with, when Mr. Canadine came along with me, and the poor infant breathed his last, about twenty minutes after eleven o'clock j and it so happened that the same persons who saw him come into the world, saw him also leave it.* He is now released from this world of pain and misery, in which indeed he felt little else, and God has received his soyl. He * A very respectable young person, Hannah Aliroyd, who has nursed Mrs. Smyth Stuart at the birth of four of our children, was then present, saw him born and saw him expire, she is still in our family, and, as well as Mrs. S. S. perfectly recollects every circumstance and fact herein stated.