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