Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination : a special article / [Kenneth W. Millican].
- Millican, Kenneth William, 1853-1915.
- Date:
- [1907]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination : a special article / [Kenneth W. Millican]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![laws against variolous inoculation. We have in the past, however, the evidence of Jenner, who wrote in 1801, says Dr. T. D. Acland, of London,9 “that upwards of 6000 persons have been inoculated with the virus of cowpox and that the far greater part of them has since been inoculated with that of smallpox, and exposed to its infection in every rational way that could be desired, but without effect.” Jen- ner’s statement is supported by the evidence of Waterhouse previously quoted10; and of Dr. James Smith, attending physician to the County Almshouse, Baltimore, who published in the Telegraph, a daily paper of Baltimore, for December 3 and 5, 1801, full accounts of the cases vaccinated publicly by him in the almshouse, and open for inspection by physi- cians. “All of them were freely exposed to the smallpox by inoculation and also in the na- tural way without exhibiting any response.”11 Moreover, an Italian physician, Dr. Valli, who in 1803 went from Constantinople to study the plague, upon the sole security of hav- ing been vaccinated,inserted into his own hand a mixture of pestilential and variolous virus Acland, T. D., “Vaccination and Common Sense,” republished from the -British Medical. Journal, in Bulletin 4, Vol. ii, Vermont State Board of Health, ] 902. ’St. L. M. R., December 22, 1906, p. 586. Cordell. The Medical Annals of Maryland, p. 49.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2247982x_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
