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A reply to the anti-vaccinists / [James Carrick Moore].

  • James Moore
Date:
1806
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Credit: A reply to the anti-vaccinists / [James Carrick Moore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lowed to suckle her own calf untouched by a milker, ever had this complaint. The cow de- fends herself truly; but if there are any who entertain an unconquerable aversion to this sweet- breathing creature, they maybe assured that the Vaccine fluid consists entirely of human juices. At first, indeed, a minute particle of fluid was taken from a milker, with which a child was inoculated ; and many thousand children have since been successively inoculated with the lymph of each other. The most delicate mother, let her prejudices be ever so strong, cannot credit that there is any particle of the cow’s juices in the Vaccine vesicle now. It has become a human malady, and so mild, that it hardly merits the - name. : Though nothing can be more certain than the truth of this, yet it was first insinuated, and it is now boldly published, that Vaccination pro- duces scrophula, itch, blotches, and almost every ey filthy disease which we have been subject to for ages. When a child is affected with a scald head, if one of the opposers of Vaccination is sent for, he immediately demands, has the child been Vac- cinated? if he is answered in the affirmative, though two or three years of good health fol- lowed, he rejoins, I thought so: this is the hu-
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