Inoculation for the small-pox vindicated; and its superior efficacy and safety to the practice of vaccination clearly proved / [George Lipscomb].

  • George Lipscomb
Date:
1805
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Credit: Inoculation for the small-pox vindicated; and its superior efficacy and safety to the practice of vaccination clearly proved / [George Lipscomb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the vaccine difeafe. But although Dr. Jen- ner and others expreffed themfelves per¬ fectly fatisfied with this mode of proving the fadl which they appeared defirous to eftablifhy there were fome who entertained doubts on the fubjedl, and among them Mr. Lawrence, who ingenioudy fuggefled the probability of the feeds of variolous infection being only finothered, or their adlivity fufpended, and not eradicated by the faturation, as he termed it, of the juices with vaccine virus ; and that after a certain time, and the ceffation of fuch caufe of fufpenfion, fome other caufe might arife capable of exciting them into adlivity. Dr. Mofeley alfo expreffed the like fufpicion ; and, notwithftanding the vehemence with which the dodtor’s opinion was combated, fad experience has convinced us of the just grounds on which his fufpicion was founded. Dr. Jenner acknowledged, that although the cow-pox fhielded the conftitution from the final 1-pox, and the iinall-pox proved a protediion againft its own poifon applied in future, yet that the human fubject, as well as the cow, is again and again fufceptible of the iijffediious nature of the cow-pox. This cir- f f
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