Observations on vaccine inoculation; tending to confute the opinion of Dr. Rowley and others / [Henry Fraser].

  • Fraser, Henry, active 1805-1806.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Observations on vaccine inoculation; tending to confute the opinion of Dr. Rowley and others / [Henry Fraser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON VACCINE INOCULATION, 4'c- 4’c- gOME time ago I resisted the solicitations of many of my medical friends, who wished me to publish the result of my experience on this impor¬ tant subject, under the influence of a decided deter¬ mination never to enter the lists as a controvertist, unless the name and justly merited reputation of my late sincere and much-lamented friend and tutor Dr. Woodville, should be either directly, or insidi¬ ously attacked. Under such circumstances how¬ ever, I was prepared to advance to the contest with all the courage of Diomed, aided by all the caution pf Ulysses. I would have thundered into the ears of envy with the voice of conviction founded upon experiment and truth, and drowned the lispings of calumny in the whirlpool of confusion. Fortunately such exertions have not hitherto been required of me, and it is my most fervent prayer that they never may.