Report of the surgeons of the Edinburgh Vaccine Institution : containing an examination of the opinions and statements of Mr. Brown of Musselburgh, on vaccination.
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- 1809
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Credit: Report of the surgeons of the Edinburgh Vaccine Institution : containing an examination of the opinions and statements of Mr. Brown of Musselburgh, on vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ passed through the cowpox in a regular way &c. Now, this statement of Mr Brown’s implies, that in those cases the persons had taken the smallpox after ha- t ving actually passed through the cowpox in a regular way. On referring to the Report of the Royal Jen- nerian Society, however, it will be found, that no such acimission is made. The words are, “ It is admitted “ by the Committee, that a few cases have been “ brought before them of persons having the smallpox, “ who had apparently passed 'through the cowpox in a ] regular way.” See the Report of the Medical Coun- ! cil of the Royal Jennerian Society for January 1806, Art. 9. And they afterwards go on to state their rea- sons for supposing that these persons, though appa- rently, had not actually passed regularly through the cowpox. See Art. 12. Now, it is evident, that Mr Brown, by omitting the word apparently, has mate- rially changed the meaning of the passage. Not, how- ever, contented with this, he afterwards states the same admission on the part of the Jennerian Society in still stronger terms. At page 276. he asserts, that “ the “ Royal Jennerian Society in London admit, that cases of smallpox have occurred, ’where sufficient proof las' existed of the most perfect •oaccination” In the same 5 page, the Royal College of Physicians in London, are said to have made the same admission •, but no such ad- mission is to be found in their Report. Concerning . the antivariolous power of cowpox, the Report of the Royal College of Physicians states, “ The security de- “ rived from vaccination against the smallpox, if not absolutely perfect, is as nearly so as can per- “ haps be expected from any human discovery; fot “ among several hundred; thousand case5, with the re-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21971274_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
