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

James Moore

Date:: 1806

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

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$the patients were completely convinced of the ‘truth of the attestation ; whether the remedy was physic, magnetism, or a tractor. In short, they were ready to take the most solemn oath to what was quite impossible to be true. Not aware of this,some of Dr. Jenner’s friends first investigated the cases of pretended failure of Vaccination. In some instances they discovered, that what had been called the Small-pox, was, in fact, the Chicken-pox, in others a rash, and in some bug-bites. Where the Small-pox had oc- curred, the patient had either never been vacci- nated at all, or the spurious inflammation alone had taken place. But as soon as one case was refuted, another was rumoured. ‘The investigation sometimes Oc- For if any mistake was committed by him, either in Vaccinating, or in the opinion he had given of the eruption, he found his reputation at stake. This occasioned warm altercations; both parties obstinately persisted in being in the right, and - neither could be confuted nor silenced; for the question does not admit of demonstration. The. contest whether Vaccination invariably \$

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

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