Papers relating to the history and practice of vaccination / General Board of Health.

Date:
1857
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Credit: Papers relating to the history and practice of vaccination / General Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. I. Page LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF THE BOARD - i Enumeration of appended documents, and heads of proposed inquiry - - i 1. Small-pox before the Discovery of Vaccination .... ii Dangers of natural small-pox - - - - - ii Different circumstances under which it has prevailed ... - ii Among remote populations - - - ii In civilized countries - - - i Illustrated in royal families - - - - - v Mutilation and subsequent ill-health of many who were not killed - - vi Habitual fears of the disease ----- - - vi Commencement of the eighteenth century ----- vii Inoculation of small-pox ----- - vii Introduction of the practice in England - - - v Objections raised against its use - - ... - vih Its advantages - - - - - - - viii Its disadvantages - - - - ix Its tendency to diffuse the infection of small-pox, and to cause an increased mortality - - - - - - - 1X Dr. Heberden's estimate of this evil - - - - 1X This objection almost insuperable - x State of the case sixty years ago - - - - x Mr. Moore's estimate of the success of medicine against small-pox down to the end of the eighteenth century - - X1 2. The Early History of Vaccination ----- xi Popular tradition on the efficacy of accidental cow-pox - - X1 Jenner - - - ----- xi His first publication - ------ X11 The protective influence of cow-pox established, and its inoculability from the Necessity for this demonstration - - - - xn Partial anticipations of Jenner's practice - - xn Propagability of cow-pox from person to person - xu Sources of fallacy to be guarded against - xm Vaccination - - - - - - - xm Its first performance in London - - - - - - X1U Universal corroboration of Jenner's statements - ... xm Conclusiveness of these facts under certain qualifications - - X1U Scientific meaning of cow-pox - - - . - - X1V Recent researches: their results and authors - X1V Theoretical interest of these observations - - ... xv The subject of vaccination first brought before Parliament - - xvl First Parliamentary Committee: its Report - XV1 First Jennerian Institution - XV11 Early prejudices against vaccination; compared with former prejudices against inoculation of small-pox ----- xv** Prognostics, denunciations, and fables - xvu Last appeals - - - - . xvm a 2