| I.—Variolation. |
| Chapter I.— | Cotton Mather and Zabdiel Boylston, | 1 |
| II.— | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, | 8 |
| III.— | Maitland’s Experiments, | 12 |
| IV.— | The First Opponents of Inoculation, | 21 |
| V.— | Collapse of Inoculation, | 29 |
| VI.— | Revival of Inoculation, | 36 |
| VII.— | Triumph of Inoculation, | 45 |
| VIII.— | Inoculation Abroad, | 56 |
| IX.— | Inoculation superseded and suppressed, | 66 |
| X.— | As to the Prevalence of Smallpox in the 18th Century, | 76 |
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| II.—Vaccination. |
| Chapter I.— | Jenner’s Earlier Years, | 91 |
| II.— | Jenner’s Inquiry, 1798, | 103 |
| III.— | Jenner in 1798, | 127 |
| IV.— | Pearson’s Inquiry, | 136 |
| V.— | Woodville, Pearson, and Jenner, | 145 |
| VI.— | Jenner’s Further Observations, | 152 |
| VII.— | Operations in London, 1800, | 159 |
| VIII.— | Triumph of the New Inoculation, | 171 |
| IX.— | A Dishonourable Transformation, | 177 |
| X.— | Jenner before Parliament, 1802, | 183 |
| XI.— | Pearson’s Examination, | 197 |
| XII.— | Observations on the Position in 1802, | 208 |
| XIII.— | The Royal Jennerian Society, | 218 |
| XIV.— | Application to Parliament for Jenner’s Relief, 1806, | 230 |
| XV.— | Report of the Royal College of Physicians, | 235 |
| XVI.— | Jenner Relieved, 1807, | 243 |
| XVII.— | Vaccination Established and Endowed, | 250 |
| XVIII.— | Horsegrease as a source of Vaccine, | 259 |
| XIX.— | John Birch, | 274 |
| XX.— | Goldson and Brown, | 283 |
| XXI.— | Moseley, Rowley and Squirrel, | 289 |
| XXII.— | William Cobbett, | 303 |
| XXIII.— | The Grosvenor Case, | 317 |
| XXIV.— | Dr. John Walker, | 322 |
| XXV.— | Jenner’s Later Writings, | 333 |
| XXVI.— | Baron’s Life of Jenner, | 349 |
| XXVII.— | The Medical Position in 1823, | 363 |
| XXVIII.— | Introduction of Vaccination to the United States, | 370 |
| XXIX.— | Introduction of Vaccination to India and the East, | 383 |
| XXX.— | Diffusion of Vaccination throughout Europe, | 395 |
| XXXI.— | Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, | 408 |
| XXXII.— | Newcastle Smallpox: a Common Story, | 424 |
| XXXIII.— |
The Norwich Epidemic—1819, | 431 |
| XXXIV.— | Smallpox Displaced and Replaced: Dr. Watt’s Discovery.—Glasgow, 1813, | 439 |
| XXXV.— | The National Vaccine Establishment—1808-40, | 453 |
| XXXVI.— | The National Vaccine Establishment—1841-50, | 470 |
| XXXVII.— | Vaccination Enforced—1853, | 477 |
| XXXVIII.— | Universal Compulsion Demanded—1855, | 491 |
| XXXIX.— | John Gibbs’s Letter—1855, | 500 |
| XL.— | Simon’s Defence and Hamernik’s Judgment, | 510 |
| XLI.— | Compulsion Intensified—1861 and 1867, | 526 |
| XLII.— | The Gathering Movement, 1867-70, | 540 |
| XLIII.— | House of Commons Committee, 1871, | 552 |
| XLIV.— | The Struggle for Freedom, | 573 |
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| Notes—Origin of the Term Vaccination, | 229 |
| Vaccination a Statistical Question, | 596 |
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| Index, | 597 |
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| Illustrations. |
| Edward Jenner from Statue by Monteverde, | Frontispiece. |
| John Gibbs, | 508 |