A letter in reply to the report of the surgeons of the Vaccine Institution, Edinburgh : with an appendix, containing a variety of interesting letters on the subject of vaccination, and including a correspondence with Dr. Duncan, Dr. Lee, and Mr. Bryce : from which also the public will be able to appreciate the authority of the surgeons of the Vaccine Institution, and to form a correct opinion of the whole subject / by Thomas Brown.
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- 1809
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Credit: A letter in reply to the report of the surgeons of the Vaccine Institution, Edinburgh : with an appendix, containing a variety of interesting letters on the subject of vaccination, and including a correspondence with Dr. Duncan, Dr. Lee, and Mr. Bryce : from which also the public will be able to appreciate the authority of the surgeons of the Vaccine Institution, and to form a correct opinion of the whole subject / by Thomas Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![9 ly say were eitlijer small-pox or chicken-pox, but yet the small-pox epide- mic in the neighbourhood ? I shall now conclude, by wishing your efforts may tend to place vaccina- tion on a basis that is consistent with the comfort of the public; I must beg leave, however, frankly and sincerely to state, that I have now no doubt of the leading facts and opinions I have published, and I distinctly assert, that vaccination will be found, from daily experience, to be only a temporary expedient; that the practice will be allowed to sink silently into .oblivion, from the aversion that such numerous and i-espectable bodies and individuals must labour under in contradicting themselves; and also out of respect to Dr Jenner, who, whatever shall be the result. Is certainly entit- led to public gratitude for his exertions. I am, dear Sir, yours, respectfully, THOS. BROWN. No. IX. DEAR SIR, _ Edinburgh, 17ih July 1809. I was duly favoured with yours of the 14th, and beg you will accept of jaay best thanks, for the speedy and particular answer to my queries, with which you have been pleased to favour me. On this subject, I might have added, not only the queries you propose, but also many others. My ob- ject, however, is to obtain distinct information, from prfictitioners in Edin-r burgh and its neighbourhood, respecting a few particulars ; but especially with regard to the number vaccinated more than five years ago, who have of late resisted variolous contagion, though much exposed to it. '^-he information which I have received on this head, leads me, I own, to a very different conclusion from that which you have formed, when you assert, that vaccination luill be found to be only a temporary expedient. From the facts communicated to me, and from those which have fallen under my own observation, I am convinced, that vaccination affords as strong protection against variola at the end of five years as at the end of five days; and I have no doubt, that posterity will find vaccination as com- plete a protection against small-pox as variolous Inoculation, even to the end of a long life.—I remain, dear Sir, yours truly, ANDREW DUNCAN, Sen. [The following Letter to Dr Duncan, Published in the Courant.] No. X. DEAR SIR, I have to apologize for not offering yon sooner my best thanks for your kindness and attention in inclosing Dr Lee's sermon ; but, from ihe na- ture of the present, and what had already passed, I hope you will excuse me for coupling my acknowledgments with the following observations; I thmk, Sir, it must be universally allowed, that the publication of Df](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21928277_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
