Report of the National Vaccine Establishment [on the occurrence of smallpox after vaccination in the families of Lord Grosvenor and Sir Henry Martin, with other cases].

  • National Vaccine Establishment (Great Britain)
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[1811]
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Credit: Report of the National Vaccine Establishment [on the occurrence of smallpox after vaccination in the families of Lord Grosvenor and Sir Henry Martin, with other cases]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pox, and that the anomaly which occurs in the one disease should likewise take place in the other. It is ever to be kept in view that the number of Deaths from Inoculated Small Pox, exceeds the number of failures of Vaccination. It appears from the present state of our information, that one person in three hundred dies from the Inoculated Small Pox, and that there is perhaps one failure in a thousand after Vaccination. An individual who under such circumstances should prefer the Inoculation of his Children for the Small Pox, to submitting them to Vaccination, would be guilty of an improvidence similar to tliat of a parent who should, choose for his son a military service, in which there was one chance in three hundred of being killed, in preference to a station, where there was only one chance in a thousand of being slightly wounded. The Board are of opinion, that Vaccination still Tests upon tlie basis on whicli it was placed, by the Keports of the several Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of the United Kingdom? which were laid be¬ fore Parliament in the year 1807. That the general advantages of Vaccination are not discredited by the instances of failure, which have recently occurred, the proportion of failures still remaining less in number than the deaths which take place from the Inocu¬ lated Small Pox. They are led by their information to believe, that since this practice has been fully estab¬ lished no death has in any instance occurred from Small Pox after Vaccination—That in most of the Cases in which Vaccination has failed, the Small Pox has been
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