An explanation of the causes why vaccination has sometimes failed to prevent smallpox : and also a description of a method.

  • Leese, Edward.
Date:
1812
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Credit: An explanation of the causes why vaccination has sometimes failed to prevent smallpox : and also a description of a method. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blessing; and solemnly and seriously am of opinion, that it is a preventive and effectual preservative against the small-pox, when carefully conducted; and if the people of Ringwood had allowed themselves to have been fairly and honestly informed of its merits, the lives of many would have been saved, and the malicious in] tentions of some persons in this quarter, to stigmatize the Jen- nerian system, would have been defeated. The enemies of vaccination did all they could to propagate the small-pox among those who were desirous of the cow-pox; and the people were much too incautious, to give the new inoculation any thing like a fair chtince. If any thing worth communication should occur, I shall very gladly avail myself of your desire to hear from me. In the mean time, I am, dear Sir, Your most obedient servant, G. Macilwaik. Other unfavourable cases were reported from Cambridge, but these, like those at Ringwood, were ascertained by enquiry, to be slenderly founded. The Report of the Gentlemen who formed that deputation is subjoined. SaHsbury-square, August 19, 1808. The Royal Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small-Pox having received information, that considerable alarm had been excited by reports of supposed failures in vaccination at Cambridge, requested the favour of Mr. Ring and Mr. Blair to proceed thither immediately, for the purpose of investigating those reports. In this request of the Society the above Gentlemen readily acquiesced; aud they have since laid before the Board of C
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