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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    L 87 ] % U'anfo&ion, we are in poffeffion of proof amounting to pofitive, and that from no lefs a fource than Dr. P.’s own authority, that the Small-Pox was the ac- tual refult of the application of Variolous matter. I will endeavour to make out this affirmation from Dr. P.’s own flatements, and to contrail his fentiments at the period when he was eflabliihing his “ con- vinci g evidences ” of the character and the utility of the Vaccina in 1800, with the opinions given in his “ Examination.” The latter are fo completely at iffiie with the former, that no dretch of liberal in- terpretation can reconcile them. In a letter inferred in the Medical and Phyfical Journal, of February, i8oq. Dr. P. fays, “ In the month of O&ober lad, I inoculated a child with Vaccine poifon “ The Vaccine difeafe took place with the ufual appearances in the inoculated part, and affe<5led the 'whole conjiitution in the ordinary manner ; but a few eruptions broke out on the fecond or third day, after a f ight fever; they were however only the large red pimples afore-mentioned, and of courfe not at all like the Small-Pox. Mr. Keate carried matter from this child to Brighthelmflone, where Mr. Bar- ret inoculated two children who took the difeafe, and from one of thefe Mr. Keate inoculated three children. They had all the ufual fever about the eighth day, and all had a number of eruptions. Matter from thefe patients was fent to Petworth, where, Mr. Andre informs me, he inoculated with it