An examination of the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the claims of remuneration [of E. Jenner] for the vaccine pock inoculation: containing a statement of the principal historical facts of the vaccina / [George Pearson].

  • Pearson, George, 1751-1828.
Date:
1802
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Credit: An examination of the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the claims of remuneration [of E. Jenner] for the vaccine pock inoculation: containing a statement of the principal historical facts of the vaccina / [George Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing discovered that a disease which occasionally _ exists among cattle, known by the name of the Cowpox, admits of being inoculated on the hu- man frame,’ with ease, safety, and so as to ‘ren- der the inoculated person secure through’ life _ fromthe Smallpox. But this kind of vaccine inoculation, is that above distinguished by _ «© 9, Inoculation purposely and directly from the Cow:” yet the Committee report that “‘ The disorder itself (Cowpox) and its specific property of securing against Smallpox infection, was not a discovery of Dr. Jenner’s 3” i.e. as I suppose we are to understand, that the casual _- Cowpor, above stated, and its antivariolous - agency ‘were not his discovery. And further the Committee report, “ that it appears not improbas ble that in some rare imstances the 2d kind of inoculation, viz. purposely and directly from the | Cow, was also practiced antecedently to’ Dr. | Jenner;” but they state that he is “ The original inventor” of the 3d kind of inoculation, above distinguished ;. namely, from human animal to human animal ; as if that were the Petitioner’s — sole claim, and he had not, claimed the disco- very of the inoculation directly from the Cow, either casually, or purposely as his right. T’should next, in due. course, examine the claim of the Petitioner in the single point now declared by the Committee; but JUSTICE | exacts from me. first to expose the extent to