On the state of vaccination in 1810; in a letter to the Right Hon. Richard Rider, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department : with remarks on the Report of the National Vaccine Establishment. Printed by order of the House of Commons, on the 1st of June, 1810 : Forming a guide for parents in deciding for the safety of their children / by Charles Maclean.
- Charles Maclean
- Date:
- 1810
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Credit: On the state of vaccination in 1810; in a letter to the Right Hon. Richard Rider, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department : with remarks on the Report of the National Vaccine Establishment. Printed by order of the House of Commons, on the 1st of June, 1810 : Forming a guide for parents in deciding for the safety of their children / by Charles Maclean. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Society*, in all i's material parts, erroneous, bat. in mmy, the *&vy reverse of truth. Three of the pf'm- fWfft] assert b,> in this table,—That one in twelve of the hiu.wn met dies of Small-pox; that Cow-pox is never frttf l anu that vaccination is an infallible prete.nive of Small-pox,--! would particularly reecr-nnend to your at,eM- e consideration, as an edifying specimen of the etiro oery, with which the median practising vaccinators were .vont to carry on their iniposture. I have i,he Iionour to be, &c. CHARLES MACLEAX. xj r. Walker, % quaker, not l>. Jenntr, was the fanner of the Hoyal Jennerian Society. He was, for a considerable time, their secretary. But they quelled, and, in 18G& he iestitmed * separate es-tabiishi-^nt, which stiji. exists under the title 01 (be Loudon Vaccine institution. He accnscsYcs Jenijerian colleagues of having pilfered his keys, furtively retained his prcficrly, and fort or destroyed ihe Society's Registers. Med. 60s. Vol. IV, p. oC4. He a!so g*vcs some accost, of the proceedings of this society, not very creditable to them as men of science, o; rneii^f honour- See Med. Obs. Vol. V. p. 337, and Vol. Yl. p. 9, Verily, f-ic>ul Walker, I am no' thy enemy. All the harm f wish thee, sturdy as thou art in the cause, is that i'lion hadst, in an honest way, an income suffi.ciem.iy ample to render tine independent of vaccination. FINIS. iV. G lend inning, Friater, 2b, Hatton Garden, London.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21354650_0116.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
