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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![Anti-vacclnariiins!” Here, Sir, here; take this copy of my work, “ the third edition, printed for “ the author, by J. Barfield, Wardour Street, London, 1806.” Observe, this is the edition T appeal to. There might, perhaps, have been a few trifling inaccuracies in the two former editions. SURGEON.—First, Dr. Bragwell, be pleased to consult page ]2Q, where I read thus: “The five “ hundred and four facts against the continuance of “ Cow-pox inoculation, out of which seventy-five “ have died devoted victims to the filthy project, “ are but as a drop of water added to the sea.’* Compare these words with the following, at page 98 : There have appeared vaunting threats of refuting the two hundred and eighteen cases ; but there are “ now between four and five hundred cases in this second edition, which must likewise be refuted ; but unless the refuting vaccinators can bring the fifty and more to life who have perished, who have “ died under vaccination, or by small-pox, or beastly ” diseases after cow^-poxing, &c.” As your readers will form different opinions con- cerning the cause ol this inconsistency in your state- ments, I need not attempt an explanation ; but shall proceed to consider which comes nearest the truth, W'hether the five hundred and four cases, or the smaller number of failures. I take for granted, how- ever, that your sum total, at the bottom of Case S04, is intended to be received as the true account; viz. “ sinaU-pox after coiv-pox, hc.Jive hundred and four: H 2 (C cc cc](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22390261_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
