The vaccine contest, or, 'Mild humanity, reason, religion, and truth, against fierce, unfeeling ferocity, overbearing insolence, mortified pride, false faith, and desperation' : being an exact outline of the arguments and interesting facts, adduced by the principal combatants on both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation : including a late official report on this subject, by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society : chiefly designed for the use of clergymen, heads of families, guardians, overseers of the poor, and other unprofessional readers who may be concerned for the welfare of mankind / by William Blair.
- William Blair
- Date:
- 1806
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Credit: The vaccine contest, or, 'Mild humanity, reason, religion, and truth, against fierce, unfeeling ferocity, overbearing insolence, mortified pride, false faith, and desperation' : being an exact outline of the arguments and interesting facts, adduced by the principal combatants on both sides, respecting cow-pox inoculation : including a late official report on this subject, by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society : chiefly designed for the use of clergymen, heads of families, guardians, overseers of the poor, and other unprofessional readers who may be concerned for the welfare of mankind / by William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I have dcckrecl to this Clergyman that I am ready to meet publicly the whole host of vaccinators, or their protectors, to demonstrably PROVE ALL THE ALLEGATIONS promulgated in my book TRUE.” I can not only prove them, Sir, but prove them demonstrably, SURGEON.—A^ou need not, as I suggested, take the trouble of convening these numerous partizans ; you now meet’’’ me, and can demonstrate the truth 9I' your allegations as easily before two persons, as before two thousand. I am willing to put the whole <]uestion to this issue: if I do not “ demonstrably prove some of your representations to be visibly ^ “ indubitably, and self-evidently FALSE, I will yield the palm of victory to the Anti-Vaccinators, and ‘‘ let cow-poxing be banished from the face of the earthbut if I prove this clearly and palpa- bly, from internal evidence, from no other evidence than your own book affords, it will be granted that I have little reason to take your bare word for the truth of the remaining allegations. By this com- promise, you see, I have taken upon myself the onus probandi, and will leave your book to speak for itself. This must lessen your trouble very much, and save a great deal of time : for, it is more tedious to examine the whole, than only a small j)art of your statement; which includes, as you tell us in great triumph, ‘‘ eive hundkkd and foue proofs OP FAn.UKF.” DOCTOR.— A glorious victory,” Sir, for tfo](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22390261_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
