Observations on some late attempts to depreciate the value and efficacy of vaccine inoculation / by Samuel Merriman.
- Samuel Merriman
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on some late attempts to depreciate the value and efficacy of vaccine inoculation / by Samuel Merriman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![St. Thomas's Hospital. Mr. Tanner, the surgeon to that Hospital, inqpulated a person who had un- dergone the natural Small Pox some years before. Dr. WagstafFe, who was a man of extensive prac- tice, and physician to St. jSartholomew's Hospital, affirms, that the eruptions on him appeared rather more fairly than in those (the criminals) who were inoculated in Newgate ;* and he attended the whole progress of the disease in both instances. Had the practice of re-inoculating variolous pa- tients prevailed in the same degree as it is employed at present with vaccinated ones, si miliar results would, no doubt, have been oftener noticed. It is well known, that mothers and nurses have been repeatedly infected from suckling and nursing children under a heavy load of Small Pox pus- tules ; and such persons have sometimes suffered very severely from fever, &c. before -the eruption a])peared. Ex])eriments have been made' to determine, whether the Small Pox could be propagated by inoculating persons with the matter of such erup- tions, and these experiments were perfectly decisive in ascertaining, that the genuine variola was produ- ced. 4- The fact is, therefore, absolutely established, that those who have gone through the Small Pox are equally liable to be locally affected as those who ^t See Ring's Answer to Goklson, p. 13. Wagstaffe's Letter to Dr. Friend, p. 31, D 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22281769_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
