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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![petually proving the truth of this. These erup- tions, then, are not produced by any huinor car- ried into the blood, but are merely affections of the skin, the consequence of cuticular irritation. If they originated from any humor carried into the blood, the same species of ei*]uptiori would not be the consequence of profuse perspiration, or vyant of cleanliness, as is sometimes observed after the Small Pox, or chicken pox. The fact is, whatever occasions most irritation on the skin is most commonly followed by such eruptions ; and they are for this reason more frequently seen after the chicken pox, which is a very irritating disease, than after any other. The eruptions which some- times follow the Cow Pox stand in precisely the same point of view. They are much more rare after the Cow Pox, than after the Small Pox or chicken pox, because it excites much less irritation on the skin. It is almost needless to bring proofs of this, the case is so obvious; but a very remarkable instance was mentioned to me by a patient not many days ago. A very respectable tradesman, in South Audlev Street, has had five children inoculated with the Small Pox ; every one of these has been subject to eruptions since, and one in a remarkable de- gree ; four others have since beea vaccinated, and these four have all been free from such in- convenience.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22281769_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
