[1128] Jenner to James Moore, 26 Feb. 1810, in Baron, II. 367.
[1129] Walker to Lettsom, 1 Sept. 1813, in Pettigrew’s Memoirs of Lettsom. Lond. 1817, III. 350.
[1130] Dr Smith to Dr Monro, Dunse, 2 June, 1818, in Monro’s Obs. on the different kinds of Smallpox, 1818. There appears to have been some reluctance to face the facts. “Though I have seen,” says Smith, “a multitude of cases in which smallpox has in every possible shape taken place after vaccination, I feel myself placed in the painful situation [why painful?] of bringing forward many facts to which gentlemen of the first eminence in the profession will probably give little or no credit.”
[1131] Lond. Med. Repository. Sept. 1822.
[1132] J. J. Cribb, Smallpox and Cowpox. Cambridge, 1825.
[1133] Ibid. Letter of Rev. R. Marks, of Great Missenden, 6 May, 1824: “The summer I came here the smallpox was introduced, and as the weather was very hot, and the confluent sort was what appeared, the people began to die almost as fast as they took the plague. Great prejudice prevailed against vaccination, in consequence of the parish having some years ago been vaccinated by a gentleman who knew nothing of the matter, and contaminated the people with decomposed virus, when it was good for nothing but to make ulcers and produced very wretched arms, and left them all liable to smallpox, which they were all inoculated for the same year.” This clergyman subsequently vaccinated 500 cases, and the parish surgeon 300: “and here,” says the former, “I had the happiness of seeing the plague and destruction of a most horrid smallpox completely stopped.”
[1134] Robert Ferguson, M.D. A Letter to Sir Henry Halford, proposing a method of Inoculating the Smallpox, which deprives it of all its Danger, but preserves all its Power of Preventing a Second Attack. London, 1825.
[1135] John Roberton, Observations on the Mortality and Physical Management of Children. London, 1827, p. 59, note.
[1136] J. Dalton, “Smallpox as it prevailed at Bury St Edmunds in 1825.” Lond. Med. and Phys. Journ. May, 1827, p. 406.
[1137] Cribb, u. s.