CHAP.XVIII. VACCINATION A DELUSION. 219 



Ample proof now exists of the fallacy of this belief, 

 since vaccination gives no protection (except perhaps for 

 a month or two) as will be shown later on. But there 

 was also no lack of proof in the first ten years of the 

 century; and had it not been for the unscientific haste of 

 the medical witnesses to declare that vaccination pro- 

 tected against small-pox during a whole lifetime a fact 

 of which they had not and could not possibly have any 

 evidence this proof of failure would have convinced 

 them and have prevented what is really one of the scan- 

 dals of the nineteenth century. These early proofs of 

 failure will be now briefly indicated. 



Only six years after the announcement of vaccina- 

 tion, in 1 804, Dr. IB. Moseley, Physician to Chelsea Hos- 

 pital, published a small book on the cow-pox, containing 

 many cases of persons who had been properly vaccinated 

 and had afterward had small-pox; and other cases of 

 severe illness, injury, and even death resulting from vac- 

 cination ; and these failures were admitted by the Royal 

 Jennerian Society in their Report in 1806. Dr. Wil- 

 liam Rowley, Physician to the St. Marylebone Infirm- 

 ary, in a work on "Cow-pox Inoculation" in 1805, which 

 reached a third edition in 1806, gave particulars of 504 

 cases of small-pox and injury after vaccination, with 

 seventy-five deaths. He says to his brother medical 

 men : " Come and see. I have lately had some of the 

 worst species of malignant small-pox in the Marylebone 

 Infirmary, which many of the faculty have examined 

 and know to have been vaccinated." For two days he 

 had an exhibition in his Lecture Room of a number of 

 children suffering from terrible eruptions and other 

 diseases after vaccination. 



