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Smith, William, exaltation of Jenner, 247.

Spain, escaped variolation, 62;
vaccination introduced, 400-401.

Spencer, Earl, 397.

Spencer, Herbert, increased vaccination and smallpox, 541.

Squirrel, Dr., opponent of vaccination, 290, 301, 361.

Stanhope, Earl, 73.

Staunton, Sir George, 394.

Steigertahl, Dr., 17.

Stephens, Joanna, remedies for stone, 37.

Stepney, 26, 27.

Stevens, Dr., never saw injury from vaccination, 566.

Stiles, Henry, smallpox after cowpox, 130.

Stockholm, 417-418.

Strickland, Sir George, opposes compulsion, 483, 485.

St. Andrews, Jenner’s purchase of degree, 97;
Ring’s sneer at same, 329, 330.

St. Christophers, 38.

St. Pancras guardians, 587.

Stuart, Lady Louisa, fiction as to introduction of variolation, 13.

Sunderland, Earl of, son variolated and killed, 34.

Suttons, eminent variolators, 45, 179, 188;
method of practice, 46.

Sweden, variolation introduced, 62,
but little practised, 408;
Jenner’s pride in, 345, 392;
sorely afflicted with smallpox, 408;
influence of famine, 409;
children chief sufferers, 409;
disease aggravated by bad treatment, 410;
steadily declining when vaccination was introduced, 410-411;
vaccination made obligatory, 1816, 411;
means of livelihood for clergy, 411;
asserted extermination of smallpox, 413-414;
Siljeström’s evidence, 417-419.

Swarmery, 291.

Swift’s city shower, 82.

Swinepox, 98, 99, 262, 401.

Sydenham, 448, 521.

Syphilis, invaccination foreseen by Massey, 27,
and Cobbett, 309;
declared impossible, 68,
by Simon, 516,
by H. A. Bruce, 530,
and by Sir Dominic Corrigan, 561;
Ricord’s warning, Brudenell Carter’s experience, and Sir Thomas
Watson’s ghastly risk, 310;
inseparable from public vaccination, 503;
Henley’s answer to Bruce, 531;
W. J. Addison’s evidence, 556;
dreaded in West Indies, 559;
Jonathan Hutchinson’s cases, 567,
and proof that it is latent and active in some vaccinifers, 568.

Tanner, Thomas, got cowpox from horsegrease, 263.

Tar water, 21.

Tarleton, General, glory to Jenner, 246.

Tartar emetic, letter from Hunter, 93;
used for vaccine virus, 121;
Jenner’s last effort, 348.

Taupin, failed to invaccinate any disease, 522.

Taylor, David, 190.

Taylor, Peter Alfred, 553, 577, 580;
reply to Dr. W. B. Carpenter, 588.

Tea introduced, 89;
denounced by Cobbett, 316.

Tebb, William, 580, 587, 596.

Temple, Sir Richard, smallpox and vaccination in India, 391.

Terry, Dr., 15.

Thiele, Dr., 1836, produces smallpox cowpox, 512.

Thomson, Dr., Boston, 5.

Thomson, Dr. John, smallpox epidemic in Scotland, 1818-19, 366;
depressing experience with vaccination, 366-368;
receives equine virus from Jenner, 368;
absence of epidemic smallpox when vaccination was introduced, 369.

Thornton, Dr., 190.

Thorpe, Rev. R. A., 448.

Thurlow, William, 590.

Timoni, Emanuel, 1, 2, 7, 10.

Tortworth, eight paupers cowpoxed, 107.

Travers, Benjamin, 217, 218, 219.

Trinidad, vaccination in, 559.

Tronchin, Dr., variolator, 60.

Trotter, Dr., smallpox in navy, 397;
medal for Jenner, 398.

Turgot, 59.

Turkey, variolation, 1, 9, 11;
malignity of smallpox, 12.

Turner, Mr., experiments with horsegrease, 335.

Turton, Sir Thomas, 250-251, 252.

Underwood, Dr., 383.

United States, vaccination introduced, 370-382.

Urquhart, William, 34.

Vaccination, origin of term, 229;
vaccinium and vacciolation, 220, 222, 229.
Precipitate approval of London physicians, 70, 173;
Dr. Pearson’s work, 151, 170;
acceptance by King and Court, 171;
the heir of variolation, 174, 191, 249, 370, 395;
received with acclamation, 274, 405;
offered gratis, 236, 326-327;
means by which promoted, 275;
character of furore, 278, 299, 305;
public goaded to belief, 286;
fury of controversy, 290, 305;
swarmery, 291;
favoured by decline and absence of smallpox, 222-225, 369, 476,
487, 514, 562.
Tables of comparison and advantage, 214, 377.
Disrepute in and around London (1805) 281, 293;
abatement of faith under failure (1808) 308-309, 317, 453;
(1822-23) 364-365, 426;
(1825 and 1838) 520;
Sir Henry Holland’s testimony (1839) 490;
faith never so low as prior to enforcement of practice, 477-479;
revival of delusion, 309, 426, 474-475.
Reduction of claim to making smallpox milder, 238, 288, 313, 321,
338, 566;
security exactly equal to variolation, 339, 355.
Opinion that prophylaxy wore out, Goldson, 284;
Brown, 288;
contested in _Edinburgh Review_, 302;
by Thomson, 368;
asserted by Lord Ellenborough, 353;
denied by Jenner, 354;
condemned by National Vaccine Establishment (1851), 473.
Failure from reports of National Vaccine Establishment, 464-466.
Easy art practiced by ladies and gentlemen, 276, 280, 305, 314, 489;
Walker’s opinion, 324;
practice in Sweden, 411-413;
becomes difficult, 343;
Simon’s ideal conditions of safety and success, 516-518.
In Spanish America, 401-403;
Austria, 404, 506;
Bavaria, 596;
Ceylon, 392-393;
China, 393-395;
Denmark, 419;
Dublin, 242-243;
Edinburgh, 241-242;
Finland, 419;
France, 169, 398;
Glasgow, 441-446;
Iceland, 420;
India, 383-393;
Ireland, 561;
North Italy, 403-404;
Newcastle, 426;
Norwich, 432-434;
Russia, 406;
Scotland, 151, 534, 563;
Spain, 400;
United Kingdom (1853), 481-483;
United States, 370-382;
Vienna, 404.
Adopted and enforced by State in England: Cobbett on projected
compulsion (1803), 305-307,
(1808), 310-311;
established and endowed (1808), 250-258;
paid for out of poor rate (1840), 470;
enforced (1853), 480-485;
vaccination office projected, 493-494, 496, 501,
with compulsory revaccination (1855), 496;
compulsion intensified (1861), 526;
repeated penalties enacted (1867), 538, 540-541, 550;
reported against by House of Commons’ committee (1871), 571;
House of Commons concurs, 572;
rejection by House of Lords and submission of Commons, 572-573;
erratic and arbitrary administration of the law, 575-576;
Evesham letter (1876), 576;
subsequent attempts to modify law, 577.
Law detested by the poor, 479;
why abhorred, 501;
cruel and despicable persecution, 590-592;
hated in Lancashire, 591.
Vaccination as a trade, 470, 479, 480, 485, 488-489, 493, 496, 518,
519, 533, 536, 537, 580;
public practice worth £100,000 a year, 583.

_Vaccination Inquirer_, 580.

_Vaccination Tracts_, 581.

Vaccine girdle round the world, 401.

Vaccine Pock Institution founded, 1799, 159, 251;
Jesty’s visit, 205;
reward offered for smallpox after cowpox, 258;
consequently shut up, 259.

Vaccine roses, 332.

_Vaccine Scourge_, 325.

Vaccinoff, a Moscow foundling, 406.

Vantandillo, Sophia, prosecution, 462.

Variolation practised in Turkey, 1, 9, 11;
introduced to Boston, 2-7;
to England, 12-14;
experiment in Newgate, 15-17;
on charily children, 17;
children of Prince of Wales, 18;
Maitland’s operations, 19-20,
easy acceptance of practice, 22,28;
opposition of Masseys, 23-28, 31-34;
Dr. Nettleton’s practice, 30;
Jurin’s precautions, 30-31;
Dr. Scheuchzer’s tabulation of cases, 32;
Dr. Wagstaffe’s observations, 33;
disasters, 34;
the position (1728), 35-36.
Revival of practice under Dr. Mead (1748), 36-37, 39-40;
in Smallpox Hospital, Cold Bath Fields, 40;
sermon of Bishop Maddox, 40;
theological opposition, 42;
approval of London College of Physicians (1754), 43;
etiquette of practice, 44;
Mrs. Chapman’s procedure, 44;
Jenner’s account of preparatory regimen, 45;
Suttons’ methods, 45-47;
Dr. Dimsdale’s, 47-49;
Society for General Inoculation (1775), 49;
extent of variolation, 52;
Dr. Buchan’s evidence, 53-55;
practice in New England, 56-59;
France, 59-61;
Geneva, 61-62;
Empress Catharine, 62-65;
fatalities, 66-69;
cleared the way for vaccination, 70;
Dr. Lettsom on dangers, 71;
Wilberforce urgent for suppression, 71;
denounced by Dr. Mathews, 71;
by Sturges Bourne, 72, 246;
by Jenner, 72;
by Lord Henry Petty, 246;
Lord Boringdon’s bill, 73;
successful prosecution for exposure (1815), 73, 462;
Dr. Epps (1831), 74;
prohibited by Act of Parliament (1840), 74, 470, 464;
Dr. Gregory’s regret, 74;
revived by Ceely and Badcock (1839-40), 75-76.
Practised in China, 16, 394,
India, 392,
Italy, 62,
Persia, 394,
Scots Highlands, 29,
Wales, 29.
Introduced to Barbados, 38;
Boston, 2, 7, 11, 57-59, 371-374, 377;
Florence, 62;
France, 59;
Geneva, 61;
Germany, 62;
Holland, 62;
Ireland, 474;
Newbury, 44;
New England, 56;
Newcastle, 445;
Norwich, 435, 437;
Paris, 60;
Philadelphia, 38;
Rome, 62;
Russia, 62-65;
St. Christophers, 38;
Scotland, 50;
Spain, 62;
Sweden, 62, 408.
Practised from arm to arm, 63, 120, 193;
Jenner asserts its happy effects, 123;
uncertainty of operation, 105, 108, 166, 212;
cannot affect smallpox, Hamernik, 522;
effects governed by mode and conditions, 150.
A pest and a terror, 71, 72, 213;
an excitant of scrofula, 123, 166;
a cause of smallpox, 69, 236, 246, 390, 426, 431, 462-464.
Contrasted with vaccination, 214, 377, 466;
discredited by vaccination, 301, 514;
led to acceptance of vaccination, 249, 370, 395.

Variolous Test after swinepox, 98;
description, 125;
worked marvellously, 181, 212;
exploded by variolators, 279;
Brown’s evidence of futility, 287;
evaded by Jenner and Vaccine Test preferred, 342-343;
applied in Boston, 377.

Venesection, 519, 584.

Vere, Aubrey de, 566.

Vicarious Mortality, Norwich, 438;
law of, explained by Dr. Farr, 448,
Dr. Woolcombe, 449;
Dr. Gregory, 505-506;
Malthus, 569-570.

Vicarious Vaccination, 237;
attested by Rev. Rowland Hill, 295;
in London, 321, 324, 346, 488;
in Vienna, 369, 404;
in India, 388;
in Northern Italy, 403-404;
in Russia, 407;
in Germany, 408;
in Sweden, 414;
in Denmark and Copenhagen, 419-420;
in Glasgow, 446;
in United Kingdom, 492, 514.

Victoria, Queen, revaccinated, 564.

Vienna, 232, 369, 404;
vaccinated and equinated indistinguishable, 405.

Villiers, Mr., 592.

Voltaire, 59, 62, 65.

Wachsel, J. C., 146, 280;
experiments with horsegrease, 335.

Wagstaffe, Dr., Newgate experiment, 16;
various character of smallpox, 24, 238;
dangers of variolation, 33.

Wakley, Mr., 74.

Wales, variolation practised, 29.

Wales, Princess of (Caroline), 5;
promotes variolation, 14-15, 17.

Wales, Prince of (George iv.), 171, 219, 220, 221.

Walker, Annie, 331.

Walker, Dr., John, birth and adventures, 220;
Royal Jennerian Society, 221;
character and habits, 222, 225;
differences with Jenner, 225, 226;
resigns office, 226;
London Vaccine Institution established, 227,
and prospers, 453, 458, 460;
interview with a duke, 228;
public warned against, 250;
at Surrey Chapel, 293;
the great London vaccinator, 322;
ease of vaccination, 324;
a Quaker of Paine’s pattern, 330;
attacked by Ring, 324-330;
indifference to money, 330;
reply to Moore, 331;
practice and peculiarities, 332;
death and character, 333;
Jenner’s conduct toward, 307, 350;
warns Emperor Alexander against him, 362;
first cowpox missionary, 396;
a fanatic, 457.

Walkley, Hester, pregnant and variolated, 107.

Waller, Prof., Prague, 523.

Ward’s drop, 21.

Ward, William Gibson, 589.

Warren, Rev. T. A., 292.

Washington’s soldiers variolated, 57.

Waterhouse, Daniel Oliver, first vaccinated in New England, and put
to variolous test, 376.

Waterhouse, Dr., knowledge of smallpox and variolation in New England,
57, 58;
absence of smallpox in 1787, 58, 84, 374;
introduces vaccination, 374, 376;
his ready faith, 375;
experiments, 376;
advertisement, disasters, tactics, 377;
compliments from Jenner, 378;
vaccinates a cow, 378;
vaccination good for weakly children and whooping-cough, 378;
cows catch smallpox, 379;
opinion of negroes, 379;
Ring’s “wit,” 379;
his cautions disregarded, 381;
bewildered as to epidemics, 382.

Watson, Sir Thomas, invaccination of syphilis, 310.

Watson, Sir William, 146.

Watt, Dr. Robert, discovery in Glasgow, 439-452;
interdependence of forms of zymotic disease, 449, 504;
evidence from West Indies, 560.

Webb, Dr. Francis, 547.

Weller, Richard, vaccinated by Cline, 128.

Wellesley, Marquis, vaccination in India, 386, 389.

Wellington, Duke of, 323.

Wesley, John, interest in medicine, 37.

West, Dr. Charles, evidence House of Commons’ Committee, 1871, 565.

Westfaling, Thomas, 102.

Westminster, Duke of, 209.

Wheeler, Alexander, 586-587.

Whitbread, Mr., 248.

Whooping-cough, cured by vaccination, 378;
in Newcastle, 429;
in Glasgow, 439.

Wilberforce, William, 184, 195, 232, 247, 254;
urges prohibition of variolation, 71;
Cobbett’s letter, 305, 317.

Wilkinson, Dr. J. J. Garth, in Iceland, 422;
account of his opposition to vaccination, 548, 549-550;
evidence House of Commons’ committee, 1871, 554;
_Vaccination Tracts_, 581-582;
process of blood-making, 594-595.

Willan, Dr., 66, 146;
treatise _Vaccine Inoculation_, 266.

Williams, Perrot, Welsh variolation, 29.

Willis, Dr. C. J., Persia, 394.

Wilson, Bishop, 81.

Winchester, 40.

Windham, Mr., 71, 194, 233, 247.

Witchcraft and vaccination, 525.

Witham, Mr., 173.

Wollaston, Dr., 371.

Wood, Dr. Alex., evidence as to Scotland House of Commons’ committee,
1871, 563.

Woodville, Dr. William, supposed derivation of smallpox from Animals,
138;
birth and career, 145;
Anthony Highmore’s testimony, 163;
experiments with horsegrease, 145, 163, 335;
obtains cowpox in London, 145;
smallpox eruptions follow its use, 146, 148, 149, 472;
explanation, 149, 150, 151;
difference from Jenner, 158;
testifies for Jenner, 188;
as seen by De Carro through Jenner, 265, 266;
Jenner’s behaviour toward, 350, 352;
visits Paris and vaccinates, 169, 398;
work in conjunction with Pearson, 197, 198, 200, 203.

Woodward, Dr., 1.

Woolcombe, Dr., vicarious mortality, 449.

Worcester, 189.

Worgan, Dawes, 259.

Worthington, Dr., 89, 102.

Wright, Richard, variolation in Wales, 29.

Wurtemburg, revaccination useless in army, 520.

Wynne, Sarah, smallpox averts cowpox, 105-106.

Wyld, Dr. George, debate with Alexander Wheeler, 586.

York, Duke of, 126, 168, 171, 219.

Young, William, 580, 581.

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OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY.

I.--The Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.

II.--The Diffusion of Knowledge concerning Vaccination.

III.--The Maintenance in London of an Office for the Publication
of Literature relating to Vaccination, and as a Centre of Action
and Information.

ADDRESS OF THE SOCIETY.

Smallpox is a member of the group of diseases, described as zymotic which originate in unwholesome conditions of life, and in common are diminished and prevented by the reduction and removal of those conditions.

In times when the laws of health were imperfectly understood, it was believed that by poisoning the blood with the virus of smallpox, or cowpox, a future attack of smallpox might be escaped. While many kindred medical practices have been discredited and forgotten, Vaccination, endowed by the State, has survived, and has entered into legislation, and is enforced with fine and imprisonment. It is in vain for Nonconformists to plead that they do not believe that Vaccination has any power to prevent or to mitigate smallpox, or that it is attended by the risk of communicating foul diseases. They are told they may believe what they like, but that vaccinated they must be, for the benefit of the rite is settled beyond dispute, and that only fools and fanatics venture to question what has been irrevocably determined.

It is to attack and overthrow this monstrous tyranny that the LONDON SOCIETY has been established. The members desire to enlighten the public mind as to the history of Vaccination, as to its injury in communicating and intensifying other diseases, and as to the failure of the compulsory law to stamp out or even diminish the ravages of smallpox. Many too, whilst disinclined to discuss Vaccination as a medical question, or to surrender confidence in its prophylaxy, are opposed to its compulsory infliction. They maintain that every remedy should be left to justify itself by its own efficacy, and that of all prescriptions the last which requires extraneous assistance is Vaccination; for its repute is based on the fact that its subjects are secure from smallpox, and in that security may abide indifferent to those who choose to neglect its salvation. Even nurses in smallpox hospitals, it is said, when efficiently vaccinated and revaccinated, live unaffected in the variolous atmosphere. Therefore, they hold that to compare an unvaccinated person to a nuisance, as is frequently done, is to make use of an epithet that implicitly denies the virtue asserted for Vaccination, a nuisance being a voluntary danger or annoyance which another cannot conveniently avoid. They also hold that to establish any medical prescription, and to create interests identified with that prescription, is to erect a bar to improvement; for it is obvious that any novelty in the treatment of smallpox must, in the constitution of human nature, meet with resistance from those whose emoluments are vested in the established practice.

The LONDON SOCIETY, therefore, claims to enlist the energies, not only of those who resist Vaccination as useless and mischievous, but also of those who, true to their faith in liberty, would leave its acceptance to the discretion of the individual. In the controversy into which they enter, they propose to employ all the familiar agencies wherewith in England revolutions are effected in the public mind and in Parliament; and they appeal with confidence for the sympathy and support of their countrymen. The Vaccination Acts under which they suffer have not been enacted with the full cognizance of the nation, but have been forced through indifferent Parliaments by the persistency of medical faction. The members of the SOCIETY are confident that, as soon as the truth about Vaccination is fully known and appreciated, the freedom they contend for will be conceded without fear, and that posterity will view with amazement the outrage upon human right and reason that is at present committed under the shadow of English liberty.

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Pg vi: ‘L’Envoi ... xlix’ replaced by ‘L’Envoi ... l’.
Pg vii: ‘XV ... Physicans’ replaced by ‘XV ... Physicians’.
Pg xiv: ‘afflicted with with what’ replaced by ‘afflicted with what’.
Pg xxix: ‘records of the the Smallpox’ replaced by ‘records of the
Smallpox’.
Pg xxxiv: ‘In the the words’ replaced by ‘In the words’.
Pg xxxviii: ‘two or or three’ replaced by ‘two or three’.
Pg 3: The date of ‘March 10th, 1721/2’ reflects the fact that it is
an Old Style (Julian) date.
Pg 49: the term ‘efficiency’ here (and at the four other occurrences
in the book) should probably be ‘efficacy’. These have not
been changed.
Pg 126: ‘did subequently fall’ replaced by ‘did subsequently fall’.
Pg 148: ‘slow to repond’ replaced by ‘slow to respond’.
Pg 175: ‘not everflow when’ replaced by ‘not overflow when’.
Pg 221: ‘embarassments were’ replaced by ‘embarrassments were’.
Pg 317: ‘un-unwearied exertions’ replaced by ‘unwearied exertions’.
Pg 322: ‘CHARTER XXIV’ replaced by ‘CHAPTER XXIV’.
Pg 350: ‘than sauvity’ replaced by ‘than suavity’.
Pg 363: ‘13th February, 1823’ replaced by ‘13th January, 1823’ (see
previous page 362, where it is stated that he died on the
26th of January).
Pg 376: ‘including a physican’ replaced by ‘including a physician’.
Pg 410: ‘from 1774 to 1708’ replaced by ‘from 1774 to 1798’.
Pg 468: ‘is tranferred to’ replaced by ‘is transferred to’.
Pg 483: ‘medica practitioner.’ replaced by ‘medical practitioner.’.
Pg 503: ‘and, inoculcated’ replaced by ‘and, inoculated’.
Pg 519: ‘which, by resaon’ replaced by ‘which, by reason’.
Pg 551: ‘repeatedy before’ replaced by ‘repeatedly before’.
Pg 611-613: a few ‘----.’ replaced by ditto mark (”), for
consistency.

Footnote [261] (anchored on page 406): ‘History o Vaccination’
replaced by ‘History of Vaccination’.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Story of a Great Delusion, by William White