Inoculation for the small-pox vindicated : and its superior efficacy and safety to the practice of vaccination clearly proved / by George Lipscomb.

  • Lipscomb, George, 1773-1846.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Inoculation for the small-pox vindicated : and its superior efficacy and safety to the practice of vaccination clearly proved / by George Lipscomb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    99 fymptoms as have fometimes (even i^ready) been obferved to follow vaccination. The mifchief to be dreaded from introducing other jnorbid affedions may be avoided by reforting to healthy fubjeds when matter is to be pro- cured for the purpofes of inoculation; but if the matter of cow-pox be derived originally, as Dr. Jenner ftates, from the greafe in the horfe, the alliance between that difeafe and fcrophula* muft naturally awaken our fears to the danger of vaccination as being the means of introducing other morbid affections in- digenous in the horfe or the cow: even if no proof had been adduced of the deftruc- tive influence of its own fpecific contagion. Vaccination is therefore not a Jhfe practice, nor even comparaUve/y fo. Shall wc then forfake the advantage of that experience which may be fairly confidered as tantamount to pofitive proof and abfolute certainty, for the vain and empty honour of being called the encouragers of ingenuity ? Shall we thus facrifice common fenfe at the altar of novelty, and yield to the didates of fafhionable in- novation what calm philofophic reafon calls -J * Sfe Dr. SquirreU'a pamphlet before ipenlionej.