An historical review of the nature and results of vaccination : as unfolded in Dr. Baron's Life of Jenner / by Vigorniensis.

Date:
1869
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Credit: An historical review of the nature and results of vaccination : as unfolded in Dr. Baron's Life of Jenner / by Vigorniensis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    year, railed at in pamphlets, whose authors were not ashamed on these occasions to assimilate themselves to those vexatious buzzing little insects, that pass each hour of their ephemeral existence in harassing and tormenting all within their reach. This incessant and formidable opposition he had to encounter, even after his labours had undergone most thorough and sifting examination had attained that stage of perfection—had exhibited that ubi- quitarian efficiency, as to be solemnly sanctioned by the legislature of this country. Such in short was the malignity of Jenner’s assailants, such their intellectual perversions, so entirely was their contumacy of temper assisted here by the delusions of the head, that their feel- ings alone would render them inaccessible to the force of fair argument, and link them still closer in the bonds of love to their first infatuation. ■ “ Kaudquaquam dictis violentia Turni Flectitur; exsuperat magis, cegrescitque medendo.” If we are to be considered amenable, as no doubt we are, for the evils which it is in our power to prevent, and for the terrible effects which they may produce; what a huge mass, what an infinite aggravation of bodily pain and suffering, the Woodvilles, the Pearsons, the Moseleys, the Powleys, and their herd of followers, would have had to account for, had their united suffrages prevailed to stifle and suppress in the embryo the only effectual antidote furnished against a disease, as loathsome as it was morti- ferous ; which not only marred the face of manly and female beauty, but, in the confluent variety, has often so completely covered the features with pustules, as to trans- form them into an object of disgust to the senses. Nor is this the only afflicting result of smallpox. The greatest perhaps of all human calamities, inasmuch as it is the most