Professional opinion adverse to vaccination : British / [W.J. Furnival].

  • Furnival, W. J. (William James)
Date:
1906
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    to be quite indemonstrable, and the facts which I have collected are not favourable to his opinion that the cow-pox gives complete immunity from the natural infection of small-pox. Moreover the cow-pox matter produces foul ulcers, and in that respect is a worse disease that the mildly inoculated small-pox.”— (^]Iufeland’s Medical JoarnaJ, A.D. 1799.) Dr, Moseley :— “I thought then, as I do now, that experience is not necessary to know that cow-pox cannot be a pre- ventive of small-pox.”—{Dr. Collins’ Essay, “ Have you bee7i vaccinated, ? ” p. 88, Lewis.) “ I attempted at the time when this practice first spread itself, to arrest the hurry which I perceived was bearing away the public opinion like a torrent: but I then found inculating caution had no effect, and and there was no reasoning with minds in a state of inflammation How far the cow-pox may be preferable to the small-pox must depend on time and experience. If the cow-pox, as it is said, be a preventive against the small-pox, so that people who have had the cow-pox can never have the small- pox ; if, as it is said, also, it does not leave au}^ foul humours in the blood or vitiate the constitution of people inoculated therewith : if, as it is moreover said, it be a disease mild in its progress and safe in its termination : for introducing the cow-pox and suppressing the ravages of the small-pox. Dr. Jenner has conferred a most essential benefit on mankind ; but on these points I am not yet satisfied.”—(Zn loc. p. 41.) “ Come and see—I have lately had some of the worst species of malignant small-pox in the Maryle- bone Infirmary, which many of the faculty have examined and know to have been vaccinated.”—(For two days he had an exhibition in his Lecture Doom