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CONTENTS.
| Introduction. | PAGE |
| Prefatory, | [ix] |
| Variolation, | [x] |
| The Precursor of Vaccination, | [xi] |
| Immediate Triumph of Vaccination, | [xii] |
| Jenner’s Procedure, | [xiii] |
| Horsegrease Cowpox, | [xiv] |
| Rejection of Jenner’s Prescription, | [xiv] |
| Jenner’s Transformation, | [xv] |
| Horsegrease Cowpox kept out of Sight, | [xvi] |
| Spurious Cowpox, | [xvi] |
| Horse Virus Vindicated, | [xvii] |
| Which shall it be? | [xviii] |
| Smallpox Cowpox, | [xix] |
| Condemnation of Smallpox Cowpox, | [xx] |
| Cowpox Revived, | [xxi] |
| A Cowpox Charlatan, | [xxii] |
| A Decorous Unanimity, | [xxiii] |
| Jenner’s Successive Disclaimers, | [xxiv] |
| Smallpox made milder, | [xxvi] |
| Punctures, one or several, | [xxvi] |
| Mr. Rigby’s Protest, | [xxvi] |
| Mr. (Marks) Marson, | [xxviii] |
| Mr. Alexander Wheeler’s Researches, | [xxix] |
| Mr. Enoch Robinson’s Opinion, | [xxx] |
| Cruelty of Marking, | [xxx] |
| Revaccination Introduced, | [xxxi] |
| Vaccinisation, | [xxxii] |
| Absurdity of Revaccination, | [xxxii] |
| The Reduction of Smallpox, | [xxxiii] |
| Has Vaccination saved Life? | [xxxiii] |
| Who are the Unvaccinated? | [xxxiv] |
| Unvaccinated Death-rates, | [xxxv] |
| Nurses exempt from Smallpox, | [xxxvi] |
| Pock-marked Faces, | [xxxvii] |
| Vaccinia a real Disease, | [xxxix] |
| Vaccinal Fatalities, | [xl] |
| Vaccinia Modified in its Recipients, | [xli] |
| Vaccinia plus other Disease, | [xlii] |
| Statistical Evidence of extra Disease, | [xliii] |
| Vaccinia aggravates Disease, | [xlv] |
| Origin of Compulsory Vaccination, | [xlv] |
| Resistance, Inflexible Resistance, | [xlvi] |
| Compulsory Education and Vaccination, | [xlvii] |
| Conditions of the Conflict, | [xlviii] |
| A Word for the Author, | [xlix] |
| L’Envoi, | [ l] |
| Dr. Garth Wilkinson’s Catechism, | [l] |
| 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| IX.— | Inoculation superseded and suppressed, | [66] |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] |
| 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] |
| Notes—Origin of the Term Vaccination, | [229] | |
| Vaccination a Statistical Question, | [596] | |
| Index, | [597] | |
| Illustrations. | ||
| Edward Jenner from Statue by Monteverde, | [Frontispiece.] | |
| John Gibbs, | [508] | |