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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    17/50 page 11
    rendered their opinions likely to make an im- preffion in the circles in VvThich they were converfant. It certainly did appear to be a very unfair, very unfafe, and confequently an unjuftifiable mode of recommending vac¬ cination, that falfe ftatements were made re- fpeding the fatality of the fmall-pox and the danger of inoculation. I do not mean to charge the ingenious author of the difcovery with any part of that mifcondud, which is attributable perhaps to his followers and ad¬ mirers only ; but it is an incontrovertible fad:, that many falfe ftatements and reports of the fatality of variolous contagion have been pub- iifhed at different times, under the fandion of names of confiderable weight and importance, which had a tendency to excite, on unfair grounds, a preference to vaccination in the minds of many perfons, who, if they had been left to form an impartial judgment on the fubjed, would have refilled its introdudion. In London it was ftated, that the fatality of the natural fmall-pox was much greater than a reference to any well-authenticated documents will countenance; and the average number of deaths in the inoculation hofpital
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3