On the progress and present state of the practice of vaccination.

  • Thomas Bateman
Date:
[1811]
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Credit: On the progress and present state of the practice of vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    tised; at the same time, that its occasional ap- pearance there has the good effect of proving the preser\ative power of ihs vaccine pock, and of roiizing the natives from (heir apatliy on the sub- ject. Even tlie Prauiins are now surmounting the prejudices of their education, and s ubmitting to be vaccinated.* It appears from a Report of the Central Com- mittee of tlie Vaccine Institution, at Paris, pub- lished on the tenth anniversary of its establishment, that the benefits of vaccination, in augmenting the- population of a country, have not escaped the at- tention of the present ruler of Frai>ce. who has formed depiJts of vaccine fluid in twenty-four of the principal cities, communicating with the Cen- tral Conmittee, at Paris. In some of the de- partments, it is said, the zeal of the prefects has been such, that there remain none to vaccinate, but the infants born in every year, and that the 8maIl-])ox is already unknown. And the returns of the mortality in the city of Paris, for the year 1809, exhibit only 213 deaths by small-pox. This number, say the reporters, 'though yet too considerable, since the vaccine offered to these 213 victims a certain method of preservation, is ' yet extremely small in comparison oi tliat ol some years, when the epidemic small-pox has carried off, in tlie same city, more than 20,000 indivi- duals. The Committee, consisting of sixteen of the principal physicians of Paris, exjtress tlieir conviction of the efficacy of vaccination in these terms. Ten years of labour and success, have at length decided the important ([uestion, as to the vaccine possessing the power of preserving all those, in whom it has regularly gone through its progress, from the small-pox. This has been carried to such a degree of certainty by the expe- ♦ See the Report from the Vaccine Establishment.
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