Cow-pox exploded ; or the inconsistencies, absurdities, and falsehoods of some of its defenders exposed / [George Lipscomb].

  • George Lipscomb
Date:
1806
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    lie believe, that Dr. Rowley’s opinions re¬ specting Vaccination were changed on his death-bed, and that he had addressed a letter to him (Dr. Thornton) on the subject. I am authorised by Dr. Rowley’s fa¬ mily, his friends, and medical attendants, to declare that this also is a positive pause- i iiood. The principles on which the Cow-Pox was originally opposed, have been at length ad¬ mitted : those on which it was defended, have been abandoned. Unlike other medical disputes, the Cow- Pox brought into notice in 1798, after en¬ grossing the attention of the faculty, not only in England, but (if the friends of Vaccina¬ tion may be credited) throughout the world, has, in these few years, yielded to the sound arguments of its opposers. In this country, and almost as soon as Dr. Jenner had announced his discovery, Dr. Moseley opposed to it a clear, manly, and philanthropic effort to stem the torrent of pre¬ judice, and arrest the public determination respecting a subject on which it was impos¬ sible to form an hasty or immediate judgment, ble was treated with inconceivable imperti¬ nence and disrespect: science and learning were disclaimed, and experience was abjured. Dr. Moseley also first exposed the falla
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