A popular and impartial estimate of the present value of vaccination, as a security against small pox

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Pàgina 15 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Pàgina 41 - ... public to prefer a mild disease like vaccination, which, where it fails of superseding the smallpox, yet mitigates its violence, and prevents its fatal consequences, to one whose effects are frequently violent ; to one which often occasions deformity and blindness ; and when it is contracted by casual infection, has been supposed to destroy one in six in all that it attacks. And it must not be forgotten, that in a public view this constitutes the great objection to inoculation of the small-pox,...
Pàgina 30 - The security derived from vaccination against the smallpox, if not absolutely perfect, is as nearly so as can perhaps be expected from any human discovery ; for amongst several hundred thousand cases, with the results of which the college have been made acquainted, the number of alleged failures has been surprisingly small, so much so, as to form certainly no reasonable objection to the general adoption of vaccination...
Pàgina 37 - Henry confesses that he entertained a fnost unfavourable opinion of the issue of such a malady, when it was fully formed : having never seen an instance of recovery under so heavy an eruption attended by such circumstances. It seemed however that the latter stages of the disease were passed through more rapidly in this case than usual, and it may be a question whether this extraordinary circumstance, as well as the ultimate recovery of Mr. Grosvenor, were not influenced by previous Vaccination.
Pàgina 30 - ... of Mr. Grosvenor, which has been more violent than any yet submitted to them, the progress of the disease, through its latter stage, and the consequent abatement of symptoms, were influenced by an antivariolous effect produced upon the constitution by the vaccine process. The occurrence of smallpox after vaccination has been foreseen and pointed out in the report on vaccination made to parliament, by the college of physicians, in the year 1807, to which the board are desirous of calling the attention...
Pàgina 19 - Abderame crossed these mountains, and inundated (he southern provinces of France with an host of Saracens. They were opposed under the walls of Tours by Charles Martel, when Christians and Mahometans fought six days, indecisively, for victory. But in a closer combat on the seventh day, the impetuous yet slender Africans and Asiatics...
Pàgina 31 - Vide report of the college of physicians. The peculiarities of certain constitutions with regard to eruptive fevers, form a curious subject of medical history. Some individuals have been more than once affected with scarlet fever and measles, others have been through life exposed to the contagion of these diseases without effect; many have resisted the inoculation and contagion of smallpox for several years, and have afterwards become susceptible of the disorder, and some have been twice affected...
Pàgina 19 - Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge.
Pàgina 30 - Nothing can more clearly demonstrate the superiority of vaccination over the inoculation of the smallpox than this consideration; and it is a most important fact, which has been confirmed in the...
Pàgina 40 - ... which take place from the inoculated smallpox. They are led by their information to believe, that since this practice has been fully established, no death has in any instance occurred from smallpox after vaccination. That in most of the cases in which vaccination has failed, the smallpox has been a disease remarkably mild, and of unusually short duration; and they are further of opinion, that the severity of the symptoms with which Mr. Grosvenor was affected, forms an exception to a general rule....

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