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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    These apprehensions appearing to me to be reasonable, I participated largely with parents and physicians in the satisfaction afforded by the aus- picious commencement and progress of the inves- tigation, which was undertaken by highly respect- able medical observers in various parts of the Uni- ted Kingdom well qualified to ascertain and to estimate both the nature and the amount of the alleged failures; and I also felt it my duty, in common with others, to accept the invitation given to assist in that investigation as far as opportunity would admit. Accordingly I noted several cases of eruptive disease, which I found in connexion with small- pox, and affecting persons who had been previously vaccinated ; conceiving that a detail of them, under such circumstances, might be still useful towards ascertaining the most frequent characters of such eruptions,—the proportion in society of those supposed to possess immunity by vaccination, who are found susceptible of being affected by them,— and the degree of sickness or danger attendant on them. My intention (when drawing up the report of these cases, and the general remarks annexed to them) to offer it for insertion in some of the Lon-