The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-07

Statement points out the snakes In the
grass. In 1872 he said: with ms the
smallpox Is seldom or never heard Of
except In the bills OF mortality. but tlierg
its devastation appears dreadful Indeed.
The doctors having the control Of the
press and all medical matters, enapied
them, In great measure, To conceal the
evils Of incubation over q hundred years.
Let us first examine its foundation ana
how IL was established. In the dairy
countries OF England there was occa-
sionally disease among cows. called
cow-p0x,. and there was q tradition
among the mixers, before Jcnner was
born, that they could not take .small-pox
after they had coV-pox, but that tradi-
that many persons had smallpox alter
having had cow pox. The COW doctors
of the time, who knew the most about
it, universally laughed at the idea, and
quoted to Jenner numerous instances Of
its failure. Benjamin Jesty vaccinated
his wife and two sons nearly 10 years
before Jenner first vaccinated. The fur
riers In that country also had q tradition
that they could not take smallpox after
(pox), a disease of horses feet. DR.. Ed
ward Jenner Of. Berkeley, Gl0cester-
shire, England, loh0 claimed TO DO tie
discouerer Of rdccindti0n, was an auda-
ciOus fraudulent character, the very
embodiment of deceit, which enabled
him to perpetrate the greatest fraud the
world ever witnessed. He was born In
Berkley, Glocestershire, England, in
17i9; was educated as physician and
surgeon, and commenced practice in his
native town in l772. He had been per-
fectly familiar with the milkmaid's ira
dition and also with the furriers' notion
about horse grease for many years.
At first when young man, he favored
the milkmaid's notion, hut when he in
troduced the subject TO his medical
friends they ridiculed II and said they
knew that was the milkmaid's faith. but
they knew that IL was not true, for they
had known of many people having small
p0x after having cOw-p0x. Jenner be.
longed TO two medical societies, and
greatly annoyed them by frequently
bringing up the subject Of cow-pox for
discussion, and IL is reported that he was
threatened with expulsion If he contin-
ued it. DIR. Creighton, the celebrated
author of the article In the Encyclopedias
Britannica, against vaccination, 9th edi-
tion, 1879, says: "Jenner was indeed
just the loose thinking. imaginative sort
of person to deal with the matter In q
merely verbal way. 1t was just because
Jenner had no profound sense Of these
empirical realities, that he went blunder-
ing into visionary nonsense In the first
instance, and at length into systematic
justification and chicdne" The hislo-
rian Of the cow-pox tradition has always
double thread To unwind, On the one
hand, the secret history Of Jenner's pro-
ject as we can moo follow IL by the help
of posthumous documents, and on the
other hand, the history of it as it was
presented to, aud received by the public
and the medical profession, at the tine.
If the profession and the public had been
permitted to know then all that is known
now mot recOning the practical TAI 4pt.l of
cow-poX to eXterlninate smallpox after
ninety years triad, they would probably
have found out Jeaner To be the vaip
loose thinking person that he certainly
was by nature. and they might have SO
acted as 10 prevent him from becoming
the imposter and shgNer that the course
OF erents made him
Prof CrookshaDk, OF Kings College,
London, referring to Jenner's tricksry,
said: "It Is evident that In the published
acco' mt OF this boys ease. Jennei Aad
sup iessed all details OF the progress Of
tb gesicle, tlv liberation and erysipelas,
as ,cell ds Jdtdt termination Of tie case.
But why should the fact of the buys
death have been omitted? Did the boy
die from the effects of in0culation"
Jenner said on one occasion: This
occurrence led me 10 inquire among the
medical practitioners in the country
around me who all dgreed Ia this senti-
Nment, that the COW pox was not TO he re-
lied upon as a certain prevention OF tho
smallpox"
In the story of great delusion by Will
liam White, noted historian, We lind
the following: "In 1i9S, Jenner pub
lished his famous Inquiry wherein he
distinctly set forth the origin of his
chosen prophylactlc. 1t was not cow
pox, it was horse-grease cow-p0x. lie
carefully Disseminated IL from sponia-
Deous cow-pox, tchich. he said. Lad NO
PROTECTIVE vIKTUE. being attended
NTH no Inflammation and erysjpet0s, the
essential sequences IF innocatati0n Dith
efectire cirrus. Jenner's revelation as
conveyed in his Inquiry was summarily
and ignominiOlisly rejected. was absO-
lutely rejected. | wish 10 emphasize This
point Jenner published his Inquiry in
order TO recommend horse grease cow
pox, and what L have 10 say l.. that tie
public declined TO have anything 10 do
with horse grease cow-pox. The origin
of cow-pOx in horse grease was secuted
as an iniOlerable ortgtn 1t was disgust
ing. He waated money; he saw how the
wind MAS blowing. and said not anutler
word about horse gleasc c0w-pnx Turn
then to his petition i0r largess addressed
to the House Of Commons I'm 1872 aud
what do we find? Not one word abont
horse grease coM-p0x, but this 0aetae19Hs
assertion.
That your petitioner has diocorered
that a disease which occasionally exists
in PARTICULAR form among cattle know ~
by the name of cow-pox, admits uf being
inocuated on the human frame with the
most perfect ease and safety. with the
singularly beneficial effect Of rendering
through lfe. the person so iROcHldNd,
petectiy secure from the Infection ~
small poa"h why, that was not Jen-
ner's discovery 1t was the notion If
the dairy maids from time immrnorlal,
and well known TO him for many years,
to be false"
We have now come face TO face with
the real DR.. Edward Jenner (uot the
mythicaD; we have become familiar
with his vaccination schemes and rec0g-
niZe the presence of the cloyen fout in
all his quibbling We find that he never
discovered anything about vaccination
that had not been we'll known in the
country where he lived for generations
before, and that what he claimed to have
discovered I'm his petition for largcss. tp
the House of Commons llS02) he ln Il
publicly condemned hinSeJ. time I'D
dgdin; and by the aid at his ar' M
pllces, he obtained Sl50.000 from Pa .ia-
ment for the most perniciOus lies stpr
uttered. coined In the bottomless lii. br
incxhaustible source of that fayOrltc lit.
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