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The pamphlet compiles and condenses the principal facts and medical evidence supporting vaccination as protection against smallpox, presenting that information in accessible form to address public doubts and prejudices. It reviews professional writings, acknowledges reported instances that have shaken confidence, and argues that the overall evidence indicates substantial protective benefit when vaccination is widely applied. It stresses the need for general cooperation, urging informed and influential members of society to persuade others — particularly among the poor — to have infants vaccinated, and it recommends public education and coordinated effort to extend vaccination’s benefits.

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Title: An Estimate of the True Value of Vaccination as a Security Against Small Pox

Author: T. M. Greenhow

Release date: July 18, 2015 [eBook #49475]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ESTIMATE OF THE TRUE VALUE OF VACCINATION AS A SECURITY AGAINST SMALL POX ***

An Estimate of the True Value of Vaccination
as a Security Against Small Pox

AN
ESTIMATE,
&c. &c.
Newcastle; Printed by T. & J. Hodgson,
Union Street
AN
ESTIMATE
OF THE TRUE VALUE OF
VACCINATION
AS A
SECURITY AGAINST SMALL POX.
BY
T. M. GREENHOW,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LONDON;
SURGEON TO THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL, TO THE CHARITY
FOR POOR MARRIED WOMEN LYING IN
AT THEIR OWN HOUSES, AND TO THE
INFIRMARY FOR DISEASES OF
THE EYE, NEWCASTLE.

“And in order to stimulate the wise and good to aim strenuously at this consummation (the total extirpation of Small Pox), let it be constantly borne in mind, that the adversary they are contending with is the greatest scourge that has ever afflicted humanity. That it is so, all history, civil and medical, proclaims; for though the term Plague carries a sound of greater horror and dismay, we should probably be within the truth, if we were to assert, that Small Pox has destroyed a hundred for every one that has perished by the Plague.”

Sir Gilbert Blane.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; AND
EMERSON CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE.
1825.