Observations on Dr. Pearson's Examination of the Report of the Vaccine Pock Committee of the House of Commons, concerning Dr. Jenner's claim for remuneration / [Thomas Creaser].

  • Creaser, Thomas.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Observations on Dr. Pearson's Examination of the Report of the Vaccine Pock Committee of the House of Commons, concerning Dr. Jenner's claim for remuneration / [Thomas Creaser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] hour, expenditure of time, and other facrifices, in introducing or maintaining the Vaccine Inocula- tion;” or which onfuch co-operation can arrogate a claim, not merely to a divifion of honour, but to a fuperior (hare of effective merit and utility, exem- plified in the disfiguring and deforming the fubjett of its'boafted protection and folicitude. Such is the view in which Dr. Pearfon’s opinions and conduct appear in 1800. It might have been expelled that the difavowal of them, after fo labo- rious a defence, would at any time have been con- veyed in the manner of direct and honor able re- cantation. But what do we find concerning this felf- fame tranfattion in the publication of Dr. P. juft iilued. Without even a femblance of apology for paft error, or the pains of even a plaufible reafon for the dereli&ion of former opinions, we find Dr. P. in his pamphlet of 1802, confeffing broadly, that the eruptions, formerly infilled on by himfelf to be Vaccine, were really Variolous. It is curious that this very radical and important concellion is intro- duced by a fide wind. We will extract the paflage irom Dr. P.’s “ Examination.” <c I was indeed difturbed, for a Ihort time, by the frelli occurrence, in the courfe of the winter of 1799, of the eruptive cafes which happened at Bright- helmftone, from matter taken out of the distinft Vat- cine Pock, of one of my patients.