A review of the Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on vaccination / [Benjamin Moseley].

  • Moseley, Benjamin, 1742-1819
Date:
1808
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Credit: A review of the Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on vaccination / [Benjamin Moseley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Small Pox; another, that he had endeavoured to extend Vaccine Inoculation in the Army; an¬ other, that he thought experience had sufficiently demonstrated, that persons inoculated with the Cow JPoXy are incapable of receiving the Small Pox ; another, that he believed Vaccine Inocu¬ lation will prevent the Small Pox to the extent of human life, because, he said, the natural Cow Pox has already been proved so to do,—and that the spurious sort of Cow Pox can readily he distin¬ guished from the real; another, that he had one of his grandchildren inoculated with the Cow Pox, and that he played with his brother, and he was of opinion that Vaccine Inoculation is a permanent security against Variolous infection, and never proved fatal; another, that it was one of the most important discoveries ever made for the be¬ nefit of the human race; another, that he believed Inoculation of the C,ow Pox secures the person inoculated from the Small Pox, as much as the method of Inoculation for the Small Pox; an¬ other, that he had seen but one instance of the spurious sort, which appeared to him to be easily distinguishable from a genuine pustule; another, that it is so mild as scarcely to deserve the name of a disease,—that he believed, when a patient has undergone the Cow Pox, he is per¬ fectly secure from the Small Pox,—that it was the most important discovery that had ever been made in medicine,—and that if it were adopted univer-