Thoughts on vaccination, and the cause of its failing to afford the same protection against variola, as formerly / by John M'Ghie.
- McGhie, John, active 1733
- Date:
- 1827
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thoughts on vaccination, and the cause of its failing to afford the same protection against variola, as formerly / by John M'Ghie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![the attempt to convey Variola to such as had had the Cow Pox, so the erup- tion was termed by them. Little regard, however, seems to have been paid to this popular belief by the medical practitioners on the spot, until Dr Jenner, having ascertained the truth of it by repeated experiments, announ- ced the fact to the world in the year 1798. It is unnecessary to notice here the controversies to which Dr Jenner's pub- lication gave rise. Suffice it to observe, that the trials which were made by the profession, to communicate Variola to those whom they had vaccinated, com- pletely failed. The Cow Pox having thus triumphantly undergone t]iee^peri77ie7i- tum criicis, Vaccination was soon ea- gerly adopted by the unprejudiced and disinterested in every country to which the vaccine lymph was conveyed. It](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21361174_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
