Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...has been suffered for several years since the introduction of vaccine inoculation."t It was not pretended that all the inhabitants of Bombay had been vaccinated, cr even a considerable portion of them; but the early vaccinators appear to have regarded vaccination as a sort of charm, the possession of which kept off small-pox; that by the vaccination, say, of one-tenth of any given population, the unvaccinated nine-tenths were protected. This faith in the vicarious efficacy of vaccination was not expressly avowed, but was implied in the numerous reports of extirpated small-pox in circumstances where no attempt was made, or was indeed possible, to effect universal vaccination. Confuted and frustrated in England, it was Jenner's habit to sigh, and turn from his ungrateful country to the vast realms of Europe, and Asia, and America. Writing to Dunning, December 23, 1804, he observed:--"Foreigners hear, with the utmost astonishment, that ' in some parts of England there are persons who still inoculate for small-pox.' It must, indeod, excito their wonder when they see that disease totally exterminated in some of their largest cities and in wide-extended districts around them." Mark the words--Small-pox totally exterminated in some of the largest cities in 1804; that was to say, after, at the utmost, five years' acquaintance with vaccination! A miraculous time--was it not? Jenner proceeds:--"Let us not, my friends, vex ourselves too much at what wo see hero. Let us consider this country as but a speck when compared with the wido surface of our planet, over which, thank God! Vaccinia has everywhere shod her influence. From the potentate to the peasant, in every country but this, she is received with grateful and open arms. What an admirable arra...
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