Testimonies of medical authorities on vaccination : with index, distinguishing by an asterisk such as treat of animal (cow, horse, or calf) lymph, without reference to arm to arm vaccination / London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.
- London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination
- Date:
- [1882]
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Credit: Testimonies of medical authorities on vaccination : with index, distinguishing by an asterisk such as treat of animal (cow, horse, or calf) lymph, without reference to arm to arm vaccination / London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MEDICAL TESTIMONIES. Dr. SQUIRRELL, of the London Small-Pox Hospital, a Contemporary of Jennek, Opposed vaccination on the ground that wc have already too many maladies ; that it affords no security against small pox ; and that it was frequently followed by injurious consequences, in support of which conclusions he instanced thirty-nine cases. »Dr. PEARSON, 1799. This intimate friend and coadjutor of JENNER, in a letter to him, describes the eruptions in the vaccinated patients in London. “You will be astonished at my talking of eruptions, but it now appears in Dr. Woodville’s cases, that as many have eruptions on the body as have them only in the parts inoculated. 1 inoculated an infant yesterday in Dr. WooDVILLE’S presence, from a patient ill of the cow-pox with eruptions on his body to the amount of two or three hundred .... On telling DR. Woobville that I had been anxious about your publishing the use of the caustic, he replied, ‘ That would have damned the whole business.’ Be assured that, if the practice [of vaccination] cannot be introduced without the caustic, it will never succeed with the public.”—Life of Renner, by Baron, i. 3i3> 3i5- **JOHN BIRCH, Surgeon Extraordinary to the Prince of Wales, and Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, 1804-7. I have thought it a duty to publish my answer to the questions of the College of Surgeons, and my letter to the College of Phy- sicians. In the last of these I have adduced no less than seven cases of death caused by vaccination. I could add more, but the cases adduced are enough to refute the assertions made to the House of Commons, that vaccination might be safely adopted because it was never fatal. I have known several bad effects occur in consequence of vaccination. The case of Rebecca Latcheord is published: spring and fall she is usually visited with some eruption or suppu- ration about the face or arm. I have also seen more than two cases similar to that of Jowles, in which the face has been principally attacked. By some vaccinators these eruptions are called scrofula : but how can this be reconciled with the positive assurance of a Justly celebrated surgeon, on which parliament 1!](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22411549_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
