Observations on the cow-pock / By John Coakley Lettsom.

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1801
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Credit: Observations on the cow-pock / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONCLUSION. THE vaccine inoculation having been efiablifhedby indubitable experience in every quarter of the civilized world, we may now paufe to confider, whether or not the vario- lous inoculation be a juftifiable practice l Opinions and even prejudices, although ill- founded, which refult from old habits, fhengthened by domeftic fenfibility, claim attention, and demand indulgence ; for there are many individuals, who Hill prefer vario- lous to vaccine inoculation ; but allowing due condefcenfion to thefe feelings and prejudices, can a confcientious medical practitioner en- courage, or give his fanCtion, to the old prac- tice, which he knows to be attended with the facrifice of at leaft one victim in five hundred cafes (independent of its injurious effeCt in propagating the infeCtion); while the modern, by vaccine inoculation, is believed never fatal ? Were
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