[1100] W. L. Kidd. “A concise Account of the Typhus Fever at present prevalent in Ireland, as it presented itself to the Author in one of the towns in the North of that country.” Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. XIV. (1817), 144. He goes on: “A great number of those attacked were reported to have been formerly vaccinated. At Londonderry, in particular, great numbers who were said to have undergone vaccination were the subjects of smallpox; and, whether justly or not, vaccination has in that part of the country lost much of its credit as a preservative against smallpox.”
[1101] Redhead (dated Ulverston, 3 July, 1816) in Med. and Phys. Journ. Jan. 1817, p. 3.
[1102] James Black, “On Anomalous Smallpox.” Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ. Jan. 1819, p. 39.
[1103] Henry Dewar, M.D., Account of an Epidemic of Smallpox which occurred in Cupar in Fife in the Spring of 1817. Lond. 1818.
[1104] P. Mudie, M.D. to Thomson, 18 Oct. 1818: “Many of the cases occurring after vaccination so much resembled smallpox that, if my mind had not been prejudiced against the possibility of such an occurrence, I should have pronounced the eruption to have been of a variolous nature”—which, of course, it was.
[1105] Thomson, Account of the Varioloid Epidemic in Scotland, &c. Edin. 1820.
[1106] In Thomson, u. s.
[1107] Thomas Bent, M.D., “Observations on an Epidemic Varioloid Disease lately witnessed in the County of Derby.” Med. and Phys. Journal, Dec. 1818, p. 457. One Jennerian, Dr Pew, of Sherborne, adopted an arrogant tone towards Bent (Ibid. April, 1819, and farther correspondence). Jenner employed Fosbroke, of Berkeley, son of his friend and neighbour the antiquary Fosbroke, to traverse the whole case of the epidemic of 1817-19, in a long paper in the Medical Repository for June, 1819. The object of the paper appears to be to confuse the issues with a view to a verdict of non liquet. The Edinburgh Review thought Thomson’s book on the epidemic of 1817-19 important enough for an article, which has been attributed to Jeffrey. The article pronounced vaccination to be a very great blessing to mankind, but not a complete protection. This was not enough for Jenner, who wrote of the article: “It will do incalculable mischief: I put it down at 100,000 deaths at least.”
[1108] John Green Cross, A History of the Variolous Epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819. Lond. 1820.
[1109] Cross, u. s. Appendix.