The Story of a Great Delusion

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Author

White, William, 1832?-1890

Title

The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact Chapters

Credits

Produced by MFR, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RM: Medicine: Therapeutics, Pharmacology

Subject

Vaccination

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61809

Release Date

April 12, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE STORY OF A GREAT DELUSION.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION. — PREFATORY. — VARIOLATION. — THE PRECURSOR OF VACCINATION. — IMMEDIATE TRIUMPH OF VACCINATION. — JENNER’S PROCEDURE. — HORSEGREASE COWPOX. — REJECTION OF JENNER’S PRESCRIPTION. — JENNER’S TRANSFORMATION. — HORSEGREASE COWPOX KEPT OUT OF SIGHT. — SPURIOUS COWPOX. — HORSE VIRUS VINDICATED. — WHICH SHALL IT BE? — SMALLPOX COWPOX. — CONDEMNATION OF SMALLPOX COWPOX. — COWPOX REVIVED. — A COWPOX CHARLATAN. — A DECOROUS UNANIMITY. — JENNER’S SUCCESSIVE DISCLAIMERS. — SMALLPOX MADE MILDER. — PUNCTURES, ONE OR SEVERAL. — MR. RIGBY’S PROTEST. — MR. (MARKS) MARSON. — MR. WHEELER’S RESEARCHES. — MR. ROBINSON’S OPINION. — CRUELTY OF MARKING. — REVACCINATION INTRODUCED. — VACCINISATION. — ABSURDITY OF REVACCINATION. — THE REDUCTION OF SMALLPOX. — HAS VACCINATION SAVED LIFE? — WHO ARE THE UNVACCINATED? — UNVACCINATED DEATH-RATES. — NURSES EXEMPT FROM SMALLPOX. — POCK-MARKED FACES. — VACCINIA A REAL DISEASE. — VACCINAL FATALITIES. — VACCINIA MODIFIED IN ITS RECIPIENTS. — VACCINIA PLUS OTHER DISEASE. — STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OF EXTRA DISEASE. — VACCINIA AGGRAVATES DISEASE. — ORIGIN OF COMPULSORY VACCINATION. — RESISTANCE, INFLEXIBLE RESISTANCE. — COMPULSORY EDUCATION AND VACCINATION. — CONDITIONS OF THE CONFLICT. — A WORD FOR THE AUTHOR. — L’ENVOI. — DR. GARTH WILKINSON’S CATECHISM.
4. 4.PART I.—VARIOLOUS INOCULATION. — CHAPTER I. COTTON MATHER AND ZABDIEL BOYLSTON. — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.CHAPTER II. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CHAPTER III. MAITLAND’S EXPERIMENTS. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST OPPONENTS OF INOCULATION. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER V. COLLAPSE OF INOCULATION. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. REVIVAL OF INOCULATION. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. TRIUMPH OF INOCULATION. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. INOCULATION ABROAD. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. INOCULATION SUPERSEDED AND SUPPRESSED. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER X. AS TO THE PREVALENCE OF SMALLPOX IN THE 18TH CENTURY. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.PART II.—VACCINATION. — CHAPTER I. JENNER’S EARLIER YEARS. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER II. JENNER’S INQUIRY , 1798. — JENNER’S DESCRIPTION OF COWPOX. — GENERATION OF COWPOX IN HORSEGREASE. — THE VARIOLOUS TEST. — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER III. JENNER IN 1798. — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER IV. PEARSON’S INQUIRY . — FOOTNOTE:
18. 18.CHAPTER V. WOODVILLE, PEARSON AND JENNER. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER VI. JENNER’S FURTHER OBSERVATIONS . [111] — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.CHAPTER VII. OPERATIONS IN LONDON, 1800. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER VIII. TRIUMPH OF THE NEW INOCULATION. — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.CHAPTER IX. A DISHONOURABLE TRANSFORMATION. — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.CHAPTER X. JENNER BEFORE PARLIAMENT, 1802. — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.CHAPTER XI. PEARSON’S EXAMINATION . [128] — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.CHAPTER XII. OBSERVATIONS ON THE POSITION IN 1802.
26. 26.CHAPTER XIII. THE ROYAL JENNERIAN SOCIETY. — ORIGIN OF THE TERM VACCINATION. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.CHAPTER XIV. APPLICATION TO PARLIAMENT FOR JENNER’S RELIEF, 1806. — FOOTNOTES:
28. 28.CHAPTER XV. REPORT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. — FOOTNOTE:
29. 29.CHAPTER XVI. JENNER RELIEVED—1807.
30. 30.CHAPTER XVII. VACCINATION ESTABLISHED AND ENDOWED. — THE ORIGINAL VACCINE POCK INSTITUTION. — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.CHAPTER XVIII. HORSEGREASE AS A SOURCE OF VACCINE. — FOOTNOTES:
32. 32.CHAPTER XIX. JOHN BIRCH. — FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.CHAPTER XX. GOLDSON AND BROWN. — FOOTNOTES:
34. 34.CHAPTER XXI. MOSELEY, ROWLEY AND SQUIRREL. — FOOTNOTES:
35. 35.CHAPTER XXII. WILLIAM COBBETT. — FOOTNOTES:
36. 36.CHAPTER XXIII. THE GROSVENOR CASE. — FOOTNOTES:
37. 37.CHAPTER XXIV. DR. JOHN WALKER. — FOOTNOTES:
38. 38.CHAPTER XXV. JENNER’S LATER WRITINGS. — FOOTNOTES:
39. 39.CHAPTER XXVI. BARON’S LIFE OF JENNER. — FOOTNOTES:
40. 40.CHAPTER XXVII. THE MEDICAL POSITION IN 1823. — FOOTNOTE:
41. 41.CHAPTER XXVIII. INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION TO THE UNITED STATES. — FOOTNOTES:
42. 42.CHAPTER XXIX. INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION TO INDIA AND THE EAST. — FOOTNOTES:
43. 43.CHAPTER XXX. DIFFUSION OF VACCINATION THROUGHOUT EUROPE. — FOOTNOTES:
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXI. SWEDEN, DENMARK AND ICELAND. — FOOTNOTES:
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXII. NEWCASTLE SMALLPOX: A COMMON STORY. — THE NEWCASTLE DISPENSARY. — FOOTNOTE:
46. 46.CHAPTER XXXIII. THE NORWICH EPIDEMIC—1819. — FOOTNOTE:
47. 47.CHAPTER XXXIV. SMALLPOX DISPLACED AND REPLACED. — FOOTNOTES:
48. 48.CHAPTER XXXV. THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT—1808-40. — VARIOLATION. — FAILURE OF VACCINATION. — DEVELOPMENT OF A FABULOUS SALVATION. — POCK-MARKED FACES. — FOOTNOTES:
49. 49.CHAPTER XXXVI. THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT—1841-50. — FOOTNOTES:
50. 50.CHAPTER XXXVII. VACCINATION ENFORCED—1853. — FOOTNOTES:
51. 51.CHAPTER XXXVIII. UNIVERSAL COMPULSION DEMANDED—1855. — FOOTNOTE:
52. 52.CHAPTER XXXIX. JOHN GIBBS’S LETTER—1855. — FOOTNOTES:
53. 53.CHAPTER XL. SIMON’S DEFENCE AND HAMERNIK’S JUDGMENT. — FOOTNOTES:
54. 54.CHAPTER XLI. COMPULSION INTENSIFIED—1861 AND 1867.
55. 55.CHAPTER XLII. THE GATHERING MOVEMENT—1867-70. — FOOTNOTES:
56. 56.CHAPTER XLIII. HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE, 1871. — FOOTNOTE:
57. 57.CHAPTER XLIV. THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM. — FOOTNOTES:
58. 58.INDEX.
59. 59.Untitled
60. 60.Untitled
61. 61.Untitled

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