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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![“ experienced small-pox Inoculation, should be re- “ linquisbed for novel, doubtful, disastrous, and de- struct!ve vaccination, is the object of iny Essay. “ Let the Faculty, and the whole world, judge.” SURGEON.—-Allow me to proceed a little, with- out interruption. Your sentiments are too extrava- ' gant to be received. DOCTOR—“ Unknown, greasy, horse-heeled ‘‘ practice, in opposition to small-pox inoculation ; which has been so improved and refined, as to be “ scarcely considered a disease ! Vaccination stands condemned by the experience of veterans in the profession.” SURGEON.— Veterans” in error. Sir, are much more dangerous to society than young men ; because they are usually more pertinacious, and incomparably less open to conviction. DOCTOR.—“ There requires a change of system in small-pox inoculating hospitals.” SURGEON.—I ])erfectly agree with you in this oUervation ; though perhaps you would not carry ‘‘ the change of system” so far as I deem requisite : for I am clearly of opinion, that the continuation of , “ SMAEL-pox INOCULATING HOSPITALS” is a fertile source of misery and death in this vast metropolis. I wish them to be set apart entirely and exclusively AS PEST-HOUSES, to receive all those patients who have casually become Infected with small-pox ; but never to be employed as “ inoculating esta- blishmeiHS. While the contrary practice obtains.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22390261_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
