An answer to Mr. Birch, containing a defence of vaccination / [John Ring].

  • John Ring
Date:
1806
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Credit: An answer to Mr. Birch, containing a defence of vaccination / [John Ring]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    labouring under gloomy apprehensions. This renders it probable, that he goes nowhere but among the most illiterate and ill-informed members of the community; for no others are so much distracted with doubt, or labour under such gloomy apprehensions, as persons of this descrip¬ tion. He tells us, that the fluctuations of medical opinion, concerning the origin and nature of the vaccine disease, fills them with alarm. He also tells us, these parents are in the most fearful state of suspense; and that they are afraid, lest what they are persuaded to do, in hopes of preserving their children from one disease, should not prove the means of plunging them into another. He sympathizes with those parents who labour under such a dreadful state of suspense, and who are afraid they shall not lose their children ; and every person who considers the hardness of the times, and has read Malthus on Population, must do the same. For, as Mr. Birch truly observes, while on one hand they hear of repeated instances of the failures of vaccination, which, according to his statement of the case, must give them hopes j on the other, they meet with Reports from the Jennerian Society in favour of the practice, which must excite their fears, lest their children should live to be a burden to them. c
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