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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    . [ « .] them to the latenefs of the period at 'which the in.- ferted matter was taken.” Let Dr. P. bring forward fomething beyond infi- nuation to difprove the cooclufions of thefe invefti- gators. He has not given one fact, which on a fair comparifon with the phenomina hated in the narra- tive alluded to, will invalidate the obvious and cer- tain inference, that they were fuch as could only arife from the life of Virus taken at a late period. Dr. P. obferves in a note, p. ioi, that “no contrary evidence has fince been given from experience.” What contrary evidence could be neceffary, in addi- tion to the correcl and faithful narration given by the author of the “ Comparative View ?” That the inferences made were founded in the juftefl deduc- tions, may even be negatively inferred, by obferving that no fuch occurrence, or any thing analogous, has r ever exifted in confequence of the ufe of early Virus. Does Dr. P. confider the deleterious tendency of the doctrines, which mere oppofition to the opinions of Dr. Jenner has led him to propagate, and for the refinance of which every advocate of Dr. J.’s do&rine is overwhelmed with his illiberal imputa- tions. The pofition which has included me in this anathema, L will here repeat, and fortunately I am not deflitute of circumflantial proof in its fupport; viz.'“That Cow-Pock Virus at a late period is capable of producing morbid and phagadxnic ulce- $ ration, confiderable eryfipelatous inflammation, and