[217] Vol. ii. p. 134
[218] Continuation of Facts and Observations, p. 181.
[219] Vol. ii. pp. 43-49 and 198.
[220] Vol. i. p. 135.
[221] Vol. i. pp. 444, 450; Vol. ii. p. 148.
[222] Vol. ii. p. 352. The London Bills of Mortality record 1685 deaths in 1805 and 1158 in 1806 from Smallpox—numbers in no respect extraordinary.
[223] Vol. ii. p. 191.
[CHAPTER XXVII.]
THE MEDICAL POSITION IN 1823.
When Jenner died in 1823, the judgment of the majority of the people was pronounced against cowpox inoculation; but medical men, who are expected to know something, and do something, against every ailment, rarely surrender a prescription until it can be replaced by another. The doctors therefore held by vaccination, but on modified terms; and the position to which they had been reduced is set forth in an article in the Edinburgh Review, for November, 1822, concerning which Jenner wrote to Gardner, 13th January, 1823, a week before his death—