A dissertation on the failure and mischiefs of the disease called the cow-pox: in which the principal arguments adduced in favour of vaccination by Drs. Jenner, Pearson, Woodville, Lettsom, Thornton, and Adams, are examined, and confuted / [George Lipscomb].

  • Lipscomb, George, 1773-1846.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A dissertation on the failure and mischiefs of the disease called the cow-pox: in which the principal arguments adduced in favour of vaccination by Drs. Jenner, Pearson, Woodville, Lettsom, Thornton, and Adams, are examined, and confuted / [George Lipscomb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • * 11 I The principal publications which are noticed in the following pages are thofe of Dr. Jenner; Mr. Henry Jenner ; the late Dr. Woodville ; Dr. Thornton; Dr. Lettfom, and Dr. Adams. I hope that nothing illiberal or perfonal has escaped my pen :—its freedom isjuftified by the fubjedt, which involves the common interefts of the whole human race ; and, although it was not my intention to write farcaftically, the reafoning and remarks which I have had occalionally to combat, have, I mull confefs, fometimes almoft irrefiftibly excited ridi¬ cule ; fo that, as Juvenal faid, “ difficile eft fatiram u non fcribere.” i I have no defire to provoke further contro- verfy ; and certainly ffiall not condefcend to reply to an anonymods opponent: but if any or either of the parties concerned fhould feel difpofed to defend their former obfervations, or to animad- t 7 vert on mine, I fhall not fhrink from an impartial inveftigation of the arguments which they may advance; nor will I attribute to myfelf fo much fluggifhnefs of invention, or barrennefs of intel- led, as entirely to difqualify me for doing juftice