An apology, for differing in opinion from the authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews; on 1. Literary communications. 2. Variolous and vaccine inoculation. 3. Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine inoculation. 4. The means of preventing febrile contagion. 5. The establishment of charitable institutions / [John Coakley Lettsom].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1803
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An apology, for differing in opinion from the authors of the Monthly and Critical Reviews; on 1. Literary communications. 2. Variolous and vaccine inoculation. 3. Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine inoculation. 4. The means of preventing febrile contagion. 5. The establishment of charitable institutions / [John Coakley Lettsom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the Reviewers themfelves, that, 1 repeat again, they preferred inoculation of the fmall-pox; and fo far were they then of opinion that Dr, Jenner had no claim to invention, that they dif- couraged the practice of vaccine inoculation, profeffedly, as appears by their own words,“ that our brave fearnen might not be among the fir ft fub~ 46 jefts of experiment f Monthly Review, vol. XXXII. p.249. July 1800* How a thing can be no difcovery, and yet to practice it fhall conftitute thefirftt experiment, re¬ quires explanation. That Dr. Jenner juftly petitioned for a reward for the difcovery of vaccine inoculation, was the general opinion of the gentlemen examined before the Committee of the Houfe of Commons; and that if Dr. Jenner had not made and published his difcovery, vaccine inoculation had hill re¬ mained unknown. In a fubfec]uent Review, vol. XXXVI. p. 196, are the following aflerlions. 4* It is a well-known faef in many countries, when perfons had been infedfed by milking a cow, with thefe peculiar eruptions, they were in¬ capable of receiving the fmall-pox. Where then is the dihindlion ? The conftitution can receive it from touching the fores, and may of courfe re¬ ceive it from inferting the matter under the ikin. To](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30795060_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
