A review of the Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on vaccination / [Benjamin Moseley].

  • Moseley, Benjamin, 1742-1819
Date:
1808
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Credit: A review of the Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on vaccination / [Benjamin Moseley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *\ - ■ •' * \ 1 , 8 ON VACCINATION. I N • s, . \ I Another said, that— 66 The ingenious Discoverer had not brought forward his plan in a rude and undigested state, but in one in which it was hardly susceptible of greater improvement. His instructions for car¬ rying his plan into execution, had been so plain and intelligible, that almost every person who saw, or heard it detailed, was able to put it in practice; and in this way, every other person being complete master of the svstem, the Inven¬ tor of it had little or no practice in carrying it into effect/’ Another, that— <c So transcendant was th e service rendered by this Discovery to mankind, that to talk of re- compence to Dr. Jenner, was out of the ques¬ tion. The very impossibility of coming up to the quantum meruit in the present instance, might throw back the mind so far, as to sink it in the other extreme/’ Another, that— 66 The Small Pox had been annihilated in Mar¬ seilles.” Another, that— “ Dr. Jenner s system had considerably les¬ sened the Poor Rates.” Another, that— “ This valuable Discovery had been injurious to the professional reputation of the Doctor; for that in this city many, of morbid imagination, and