Extracts from an essay on vaccination, after thirty-five years' observation and experience / by Dr. Bayard ; translated by George S. Gibbs.

  • Bayard, Armand.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Extracts from an essay on vaccination, after thirty-five years' observation and experience / by Dr. Bayard ; translated by George S. Gibbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. 9 At two different epochs the ladies of England have played a great part in connexion with two discoveries, we allude to those of Variolous Inoculation and Cow-pox Inoculation, commonly known as Vaccination. Now, a lady, a member of the Ladies’ Sanitary Associa¬ tion, offers a Prize, for the best work treating of—1. The actual value of Vaccination as a preventative of Small¬ pox and, 2. Its dangers from the introduction of other diseases into the organismshe desires the “ essayists to write without any reserve, and to state on the points named the whole truth as it is presented to their minds.” This programme shews the importance of the question which still divides the medical faculty; it does honour to the loyalty of the donor of the Prize by its characteristics of justice and independence, which are the two motives for my taking pen in hand, after study and experience extending over thirty-five years. Before judges assembled, neither to approve nor con-