Address of the Royal Jennerian Society, for the Extermination of the Small-pox, with the plan, regulations, and instructions for vaccine inoculation : to which is added, a list of the subscribers : instituted in 1803.
- Royal Jennerian Society
- Date:
- 1803
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Address of the Royal Jennerian Society, for the Extermination of the Small-pox, with the plan, regulations, and instructions for vaccine inoculation : to which is added, a list of the subscribers : instituted in 1803. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![i] null-pox has, in many cafes, proved fatal: and it is further highly objectionable, fmce, by fpreading in- fection, it endangers the lives of all perfons in the neighbourhood, who have not previoufly had the difeafe. A mild and certain preventive of the Small- pox, was a few years ago providentially difcovered by the Jennerian Inoculation of the Cow-pock. This, after the ftricteft inquiry, has been approved and recommended by the Britifh Parliament j and is now extenfively practifed, under the patronage of their Majefties, and the whole Royal Family. The new Inoculation may be fafely performed at every feafoh of the year, and at every period of life, fince it occafions no material diforder, nor is attended with any danger whatever. At the fame time no infection is communicable from the perfons inoculated to others with whom they have intercourfe. Thus this fimple and eafy procefs, without endangering the community, preferves all thofe who undergo it, from a moft loathfome difeafe; and never excites in the conftitution the dreadful maladies above-mentioned, which fo frequently fucceed both the natural and inoculated Small-pox. That you might not remain ignorant of fo inefti- mable a bleffing, this fhort ftatement is prefented to you; and as you value the life of your infant, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22281745_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
