Practical observations on the inoculation of the cow-pox: to which is prefixed a compendious history of that disease / [John Addington].
- Addington, John
- Date:
- [1801]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the inoculation of the cow-pox: to which is prefixed a compendious history of that disease / [John Addington]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![] 64 that the author may justly assert, on the at- chievements of any other Enterpriser, in the sense of the terms of Ulysses— Opera illius mea sunt. Finally, when no remuneration was claimed at all, nor any honour but secondary, or a mere acknowledgment was hoped for; I say when these things are known, perhaps I shall rather be blamed by most persons for extravagance of credit, than accused of disparagement. This ground being respected as the rightful property of the Petitioner, I gave it as my opinion, to the Com- mittee, that the question of remuneration could not be affected, or at least ought not to be so, by any prior instances of Vaccine Inoculation ; un- less it could be shown that the Claimant had unfairly appropriated to himself the facts of ano- ther person. I farmer allow, it appeared, to me that instances of Vaccine Inoculation, antece- dent to Dr. J. had been instituted ; yet being of opinion that such cases should be judged of liberally, on the side of the greater Deserver j I acted accordingly, when I was asked whether 1 imagined the Petitioner learned to inoculate the Cowpock from the persons attested to have inoculated antecedently, that I appre- hended the trials were independent of each other. (Report, p. 36.)—It should be noticed that the inquiry respecting the origin of the in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22042775_0350.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
