Inoculation for the small-pox vindicated : and its superior efficacy and safety to the practice of vaccination clearly proved / by George Lipscomb.

  • Lipscomb, George, 1773-1846.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Inoculation for the small-pox vindicated : and its superior efficacy and safety to the practice of vaccination clearly proved / by George Lipscomb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dlfcovery, feem to have almoft forgotten the practice to which vaccination w^as to be op- pofed, and employed themfelves in panegy- rifing the benevolence and philanthropy of the difcoverer, rather than in fairly appre- ciating the value of his fuggestions. Many among thofe, who were eager to introduce vaccination, fpoke of it in terms which refer- red to the ravages of the fmall ■ pox naturally; and overlooked the beneficial influence of inoculation, which, when judicioufly perform- ed, had been found indeed capable of dif- arming that terrific difeafe of its primeval horrors. It is but fimple jufi:ice to Dr. Jenner to re- mark, that the dodor ftated in the moft un- equivocal manner, that he thought much precaution necefifary in the progrefs of the ** enquiry. Mr. John Hunter excellently obferved, on a different occafion, that no man was fit to make afiy experiment who had not made many: by which I underftand him to have thought that thofe accounts of experiments which are given to us by perfons not frequently accuftomed to minute invefti- gation and analyfis are feldom to be de- c