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:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![t ] “ This occurrence was in an early period of the Vaccine practice, when thofe who firft inoculated for the Cow-Pock, did not know the characteristic symp- toms of the eruption from experience.' Let me paufe to enquire, why they did not know it ? Dr. P. or any other inoculator, at this tera, is bereft of all ex- cufe for ignorance, after it had been mentioned by Dr. Jenner, in his Enquiry, in the moll unequivocal terms, and afterwards infilled on by him in different public and private communications, that eruptions formed no part of pure Vaccina. Inltead of pro- fiting by this information, we find Dr. P, in Fe- bruary 1800, exhibiting a vain difplay of reafoning, to prove, that the Vaccina was little better than Va- riola. Dr. P. difdains to accept the knowledge dif- penfed by Dr. J. and now affails him for not having promulgated more. A fingular effect of inconfift- ency, and obliquity of view! Dr. P. continues—*■ “ Unfortunately matter was fent from the Small- Pox eruptions to Petworth for inoculation, in place of Vaccine matter, and there, of course^ it produced the Small-Pox.” The account here afforded will be flill better illuf- trated by a letter from the Rev. Mr. Ferryman to Dr. Jenner:— Petworth, June 14, 1800. cc Dear Sir,—Nothing could be more unfortu- nate than the introduffion of the Cow-Pox at Pet- worth, nothing more happy than the conclufion of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28741845_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
