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

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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$the inoculation ; and though I have given the ut« mod attention to the effcdts of each, I have never been able to difcover any difference.” “ I could produce feveral inilances in which the matter, taken fo late as the 14th day after the inoculation, has been attended with equal fuccefs as that taken at any earlier period.” But Dr. W. then adds, that the Virus which this late (lage of the pock fumiffies, is more liable to fail in communicating infection, and that its effects proceed more flowly. The very ad- miffion that its\effects proceed more Jlowly, in a difeafe of which the precife and regular progrefs is the leading charafteriftic of certainty, and which is thus allowed by an advocate of the ufe of late Virus, is fufficient to demonftrate, that fuch Virus is ineffi- cient and uncertain. Dr. P. obferves, ei On this point I confider the mod; fatisfadlory and clear evi- dence to be the regifter of the Vaccine-Pock Inlti- tution, and the refult of Dr. Woodville’s pradfice at the Small-Pox Hofpital.” Vain and unwarrant- able affertion ! The pradlice of individuals has ex- ceeded manifold that of thefe boaftlingly deferibed eftabliffiments. Dr. Marffiall’s perfonal experience has more than doubled numerically the inoculations of both thefe inftitutions. The Rev. G. Jenner, Mr. Ring, of London, and Mr. Taylor, of Woot- ton-Underedge, have individually performed more inoculations than have occurred at the Vaccine-Pcck Inffitution. Are we then to be told, that it is to$