The vaccine scourge. (No. II.) Containing a new song, called The blacksmith's [i.e. John Walker's] progress, or, I and my partner Joe [Leaper]; sung at a certain Vaccine Institution in Salisbury Court [i.e. the London Vaccine Institution].

Date:
1809
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Credit: The vaccine scourge. (No. II.) Containing a new song, called The blacksmith's [i.e. John Walker's] progress, or, I and my partner Joe [Leaper]; sung at a certain Vaccine Institution in Salisbury Court [i.e. the London Vaccine Institution]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Davies, theJRev. (Mr. Middleton, Mr. Westcott and Mr. Macihvain, Surgeons of Ringwood, and the other principal inhabitants of that town and neigh¬ bourhood. In their presence the medical gentlemen, during two whole days, went into a close investigation of these supposed failures of Vaccination. Their report, which is open to the inspection of any medical man, affords the most consolatory results. These results the Society now lay before the public, to defeat the effects of prejudice or misrepresentation ; and to confirm the efficacy and advantage of Dr. Jehner’s great discovery, the Cow Pock Inoculation, as a safe, mild, and uncontagious antidote against that most terrible and contagious malady the Small Pox. On the whole, the Medical Deputation are perfectly satisfied, after a minute and careful examination of the numerous cases brought before them, that no in¬ stance occurred, during the dreadful visitation at Ringwood, of the Small Pox having taken place where the process of Vaccination had been complete; and the}7 have the highest satisfaction in offering to the public a confirmation of their own opinion, in the subjoined communications from the two medical prac¬ titioners at Ringwood, by whom the majority of the inhabitants were inoculated. General Result of the Inquiry into the unfavourable Reports concerning Vaccination at Ringwood. THE Small Pox appeared at Ringwood about the middle of September; and rapidly spread through the town and neighbourhood, partly by means of inocula¬ tion, and partly by natural infection.
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