Vaccination vindicated against misrepresentation and calumny, in a letter to his patients / by Edward Jones.

  • Jones, Edward.
Date:
1805
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    of quoting a letter to the Editors of the Medical and Physical Journal, from that distinguished sur- geon Mr. Trye, of Gloucester, which is of itself sufficient to refute volumes of such pamphlets as Dr. Squirrel’s :— Jo the Editors of the Medical and Physical Journal. “ gentlemen, <r^jen ^r* tenner first introduced Vaccine Inoculation, I declined adopting it. Inoculation with the small-pox I had long practised without a single loss ; I had also fixed opinions in phy- S1°^°py> which militated against what was advanced by himself and his friends. In process of time, however, such a mass of clear, undisputed, decisive evidence came forward in support of the newly-discovered preservative, as to be irresistible to a mind not hardened beyond the susceptibility of conviction; and, con- sequently whatever might have been my previous notions, or my habits of thinking, I could no longer persist in the use of variolous matter. I will not say, that my own practice, in inoculating with cow-pox matter, has been so considerable as that of many others, or that I have made a variety of experiments, with a view to understand or explain any of the phenomena of the disease; but I will say, that in the small-pox, both natural and inoculated, my experience has been ample; and from that experience alone, I was enabled to compare the merits of smai 1-pox inoculation with those ascribed to the Jennerian practice, from my own experience, then, I can assert, first, tnat whatever has been said against the sufficiency of cow-pox matter, as a security against variolous infection, may be also said with truth against small-pox matter, as a similar security from my own experience I can, secondly, assert, that the subsequent ill effects which have been said to follow cow-pox, have, in a ten-lold greater degree, followed small-pox. And astly, from my own knowledge, I can assert, (and who of ont> st.andmg in the profession cannot do the same?) that many instances ol mortality have happened in small-pox inoculation, whilst amongst alt which has been said, not a single example appears of death from cow-pox. & facts-nbuethalfc °ff m^firr aSSfrtion’ 1 can ^collect numerous 1 cts, but, as I write for the public, and on a most im ^imh'shtiuL1 l11,^ n°thing'in sypport of that assertion~ I win fwlr !- y Up°n my own credibility or memory; I will, therefore confine myself to the three following cases in hifLJfc^in?ntp0ItS’ fthIS dty’ wdl known esteemed his piolession ot the law, was inoculated with the small- pox m his infancy, together with an elder sister, by The!-, father,.