Observations on the varioloid disease, on or small-pox, under the form which it presents in persons previously vaccinated, illustrated by cases and experiments, published with a view to a true estimate of the value of vaccination / by William Stoker.

Date:
1821
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Credit: Observations on the varioloid disease, on or small-pox, under the form which it presents in persons previously vaccinated, illustrated by cases and experiments, published with a view to a true estimate of the value of vaccination / by William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    highly satisfactory. They accord verv gene- rally in their testimony of small-pox appear- ing after vaccination, but in a small propor- tion to the number that enjoyed perfect im- munity by means of its preventive influence, and furnish proof that even in that small pro- portion of such susceptible persons, the dis* ease was so mitigated, as in general to cause a very slight degree of sickness during its shortened couise, or apprehension of a pro- tracted or unfavorable issue; thus placing the great advantages of vaccination more firmly on the immoveable bases of experimental truth. Several cases of eruptive disease after cow-pock, very similar to those published by Drs. Hen nail* and Robinson,+ and by Mr. Cross,X were submitted to my attention un- der circumstances which seem to me to con- firm still more the justice of the foregoing views on this subject; l however present a u 2 * See Edinburgh Medical Journal, vol. 1+. f Cases of Eruptive Diseases, by Samuel Robinson, M. D. Physician to the House of Recover}', Cork-street, &c. S vol. of Transactions of the Association, &c. of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland. t History of the Variolous Epidemic, &c. Ac. by John Cross. Esq.