Some recent cases of small pox subsequent to vaccination. To which are added, experiments to ascertain the effect of vaccinating in the hand in imitation of the casual disease ; with facts, and observations on the effect of eruptive diseases in removing the security derived from cow pox / [William Goldson].

  • Goldson, William
Date:
1805
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Credit: Some recent cases of small pox subsequent to vaccination. To which are added, experiments to ascertain the effect of vaccinating in the hand in imitation of the casual disease ; with facts, and observations on the effect of eruptive diseases in removing the security derived from cow pox / [William Goldson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    believed that Mr. Goldfon’s pamphlet, owing to (he authors want of inioimation, was, by inillake, addrelhed to another inflitution, it is equally our duty to acf for the benefit of the public concerning the queflion iuppoled to be at ilTue. We accordingly olFer the follow- ing Statement of Evidence, trufting that the interefls of fociety will be promoted by the inquiry, for which the public will owe obli- gations to thole who have provoked it. Be- caufe, if the cow pock deflroys the fufeeptibi- lity of the fmall pox as extenfively as going through the fmall pox does; then to obtain that benefit, the practice of vaccination muft be further, and more generally, invefligated than has hitherto been the cafe; but if vacci- nation be not fo extenfively efficacious as va- riolation, then it is fitting that the public be infoimed of the real value of the new inocu- lation, that it may be adopted for as much as it ]s worth/’—Statement of Evidence, by the Phy- f.cians of the original Vaccine Pock Injtitution. ShNTiiiii'.NTs luch as thele, replete with real ana genuine marks of Philanthropy, convey-