Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London on vaccination. With an appendix, containing the opinions of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh and Dublin; and of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of London, of Dublin, and of Edinburgh / Ordered to be printed, by the House of Commons.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London on vaccination. With an appendix, containing the opinions of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh and Dublin; and of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of London, of Dublin, and of Edinburgh / Ordered to be printed, by the House of Commons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    They did this with a view to publifh their opinion.with regard to Vaccination, and in teftimony of tlieir conviction of the immenfe be- netits which have been, and which will in future he derived to the world, from Inoculation for the Cow Pox, and as a mark of their fenfe of Dr. .lenner’s very great merits and ability in introducing and promoting this invaluable practice. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your molt obedient humble Servant, Th. Spens, C. R. M. Ed P*. To the Royal College of Phyficians of London. V , •——— No. 3. AT a Special Court of Aflillants of the Royal College of Sur- geons, convened by order of the Mafier, and holden at the College on Tuefday the 17th day of March 1807 ; Mr. Governor Lucas in the Chair: Mr. Long, as Chairman of the Hoard of Curators, reported, That the Board are now ready to deliver their Report on the fubjed of Vaccination. It was then moved, feconded, and Refolved, That a Report from the Board of Curators, on the fubjed of Vaccination, which was re- ferred to their confideration by the Court of Allillants, on the 2tft day ot November lall, be now received. Mr. Long then delivered to Mr. Governor Lucas (prefiding in the ab fence ol the Matter) a Report lrom the Board of Curators. It was then moved, feconded, and Refolved, That the Report de- livered by Mr. Long, be now read ; audit was read accordingly, and is as follows: To the Court of Afiihants of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. THE Report of the Board of Curators, on the fubjed of Vaccination, referred to them by the Court, on the a,ft day of November 1806 ; made to the Court on the 17th of March 1807. The Court of Afl]Hants having received a Letter from the Royal •V? °nJ • AC*Snf,- London, addrefled to this College, dating, . !f ., been gracioufly pleafed, incompliance with an r diets hom the Honourable Houle of Commons, to dired His Royal College of 1 hyficians of London to enquire into the Rate of Vaccina- tion in the United Kingdom,, to report their Obfervations and Opi- nion upon that Pradicc, upon the Evidence adduced in its fupport, and