Small-pox and cow-pox : comprehending a concise history of those diseases, and a comparison between inoculation for small-pox and vaccination, founded upon a statistical account of their effects in Cambridge, with a plan for the universal extension of vaccination.

  • Cribb, John Jennings.
Date:
1825
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    of the people against this novel practice, and so generally was its adoption resisted, notwithstanding the high sanction, and even example by which it was recom- mended to them, that Dr. Jurin, a very eminent phy- sician and zealous promoter of inoculation, could find no more than ]Q\ cases of it in the whole kingdom six years after its first introduction, i. e. from 1721 to 1/27-* In France also, four years after its introduction, Condamine could discover only 400 cases of inocu- lation, t The practice, however, was gradually ex- tended, till towards the close of the century it had become very general among all classes, not only in England, but throughout the whole of Europe and Ame- rica. About this period (in 1798) Dr. Jenner published to the world his experiments on vaccination, the practice of which has since almost superseded that of inoculation. In consequence of a number of persons who had un- dergone vaccination having become subsequently affected by Small-pox, many have had their confidence in this an- tidote so much shaken, as to induce them to express a preference for the old and exploded one of Small-pox in- oculation ; and, in fact, inoculation was actually resolved upon and adopted in the course of last year, in a parish within eleven miles of Cambridge, and several hundred * Vide Philos. Trans. 1727. Black, p. 30 and seq. f Vide. Memoire sur l'lnoculatiou, &c.