Letter on vaccination to a medical practitioner / from H. Strickland Constable.

  • Constable, H. Strickland (Henry Strickland), 1821-1909.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Letter on vaccination to a medical practitioner / from H. Strickland Constable. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ij E T T IE lE^. 0— Dear Sir, One day in conversation with you about Vaccina- tion, you told me you were completely ignorant upon the subject of the evil consequences that sometimes follow the operation. I feel sure therefore you will be glad to learn that Dr. Hawksley, an eminent Physician in London, says that sometimes Vaccina- ConvuMons tion undoubtedly causes convulsions, or some equally vaccination, serious evil, and in some cases death; and this, as he says, when there is nothing wrong about the lymph' used. There is nothing like London for teaching facts. People spend their lives discussing a question in little country districts and provincial towns, that five minutes talk with a man who is familiar with the vast experience that London and its great hospitals afford settles at once. You also said to me that if anything serious happens after Vaccination it is because the lymph used is impure. I have no doubt you are acquainted with an excellent work by the late Archbishop Whately upon logic. If so, I think you will see Archbishop upon consideration, that this is an assumption A