Hints for the consideration of Parliament, in a letter to Dr. Jenner, on the supposed failures of vaccination at Ringwood : including a report of the Royal Jennerian Society on that subject, after a careful public investigation upon the spot; also containing remarks on the prevalent abuse of variolous inoculation, and on the dreadful exposure of out-patients attending at the Small-Pox Hospital / by William Blair.

  • Blair, William, 1766-1822.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Hints for the consideration of Parliament, in a letter to Dr. Jenner, on the supposed failures of vaccination at Ringwood : including a report of the Royal Jennerian Society on that subject, after a careful public investigation upon the spot; also containing remarks on the prevalent abuse of variolous inoculation, and on the dreadful exposure of out-patients attending at the Small-Pox Hospital / by William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page Examination of Mr. Birch’s unfair and insidious conduct, relative to the deaths from supposed vaccine ulcer ..... 107-109 Two letters on this subject . . . 110-112 Mr. Birch’s variolous practice . . . iia-114 Mr. Westcott accuses Mr. Birch of publishing a false statement ..... 115-116 Mr. Birch suspected of inventing the story of deaths from vaccine ulcers . . . . 116-119 Mr. Birch’s conceit and misapplication of Scrip- ture answered ..... 119-122 Mr. Ring’s opinion of Mr. Birch’s enmity and rancour ...... 122-123 Dr. Adams considers the cow-pox less produc- tive of ill consequences than the small-pox 124-125 Dr. Woodville and another physician produced the small-pox by mistake, instead of the cow- pox , . . . . . . 125 A general re-vaccination suggested as proper . 125 Dr. Jenner’s second reward not occasioned by any petition ..... 126-127 Remarks in the House of Commons on the Small-pox Hospital .... 127-128 Mr. Birch’s ill compliment to the only Member who opposed Dr. Jenner’s reward . . 129 Mr. Birch’s antipathy to the Army^ Medical Board, and his paper for Irish chairmen, &c. 130-131 Small-pox inoculation rapidly increasing in London ...... 132-I33 Mr. Birch complains of the partiality of the public prints . . . . . . 134 He thinks the Ringwood cases decidedly over- turn the College Report on vaccination, and demand the attention of Parliament . , 13S-137 Mr. Birch’s bull .... Dr. Rowley and Dr. Samuel Johnson cited Mr. Birch’s inconsistency of opinion A Thresher at Ringwood becomes an inocu- lator of the small-pox A Farrier-inoculates for five shillings Prejudices at Ringwood Eccentricity of Mr. Birch . , 138 137 •139 140 14^ 142 142 H3