An inquiry into the antivariolous power of vaccination : in which, from the state of the phenomena, and the occurrence of a great variety of cases, the most serious doubts are suggested of the efficacy of the whole practice, and its powers at best proved to be only temporary, from which also will appear, the necessity of, and proper period for again submitting to, inoculation with variolous virus / by Thomas Brown.
- Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820.
- Date:
- 1809
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An inquiry into the antivariolous power of vaccination : in which, from the state of the phenomena, and the occurrence of a great variety of cases, the most serious doubts are suggested of the efficacy of the whole practice, and its powers at best proved to be only temporary, from which also will appear, the necessity of, and proper period for again submitting to, inoculation with variolous virus / by Thomas Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![delicate, and more liable to degenerate, or to fail in its operation from various causes, several practitioners are of opinion, that the variolous is preferable to the vaccine inocu- lation, and that it may be conducted with equal safety. I need not at present reca- ' pitulate the advantages of vaccine inocula- tion, which thousands have attested. The salutary effects of this ])ractice, under the proper regulations, being fully established, should ive now desist from it, because it is found to require greater nicety and attention than many persons at first believed neces- sary? A very different conclusion ought surely to be drawn from failures, which were not so much the effects of accident, mistake, or oversight in the early inocula- tors, as of inexperience in the business they had undertaken. The right inference, from the mistakes or failures above stated, and from the nicetij of vaccine inoculation, is, that only those should be inoculators, who](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21300902_0333.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
