An address to the public on the advantages of vaccine inoculation : with the objections to it refuted / [Henry Jenner].

  • Jenner, Henry, 1766?-1851.
Date:
[1800?]
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Credit: An address to the public on the advantages of vaccine inoculation : with the objections to it refuted / [Henry Jenner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *7 Gentlemen of the first character and highest eminence in their profession, whose repeated experiments corroborate my as- sertions respe6ting the peculiar properties of the Vaccine Disease. But waving this reference for the present, I cannot avoid observing that I should consider myself as the grand enemy of Society if I were to recommend the general intro- du6tion of a pra£tice, if experience, the test of theory, and the only sure guide of condu6t, did not fully warrant its highest recommendation. Nay, in what light should I con- sider myself as a professional man, and I trust an honest member of Society, if I were to enforce a pra£tice which involves in itself the dearest interests of Societv, which com- prehends in its influence the healths and lives of my fellow creatures, if I were not assured of its inevitable safety, and its numerous advantages. These advantages will doubtless be embraced by the serious and refle6tive. The mind of feeling, anxious for the health and safety of relatives and friends, will pause and consider before the Small-Pox be admitted, while so mild and so efficacious a substitute is offered* The im- I ate. * minent danger, the disfigured skin, the subsequent scrofula
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