On the progress and present state of the practice of vaccination.
- Thomas Bateman
- Date:
- [1811]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![i9. e PROGRESS AND PRESENT STA.TE OF THE Practice of Vaccination, JL HE objects, which the general adoption of Taccine inoculation will accomplish for ijnankind, if time and experience shall confirm tlie promises of its benevolent discoverei', are so im])0)-tant, tliat every friend of humanity must have followed, with anxious hope, the progress of tlie ])ractice, and rejoiced at the general result of the evidence in its favour. It is not easy, indeed, to calculate the sum of human misery that will cease to exist, when the j^rospect, which vaccination holds out to us, sliall be reahzed. In its casual, or natural occurrence, as it is termed, the small-pox is not only the most loathsome distemjjer that visits the human frame, but the most fatal pestilence j sweeping oflF multitudes, during its prevalence, and destroying the sight, corrupting the habit, or otherwise intiicting disease, on great numbers of those, wlio escape its more destructive effects. The practice of uioculation had, it is true, already iliminished those tvils, among the individuals who resorted to it; but it had unfortunately augmented the evils, among the people in general, by the perpetual infection which it disseminated, and the artificial epidemic which it constantly kept up. In X<ondon, for instance, during the first thirty yetii;d](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21034734_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
