220 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY, CHAP. xvm. 



Dr. Squirrel, formerly Resident Apothecary to the 

 Small-pox Inoculation Hospital, also published in 1805 

 numerous cases of small-pox, injuries, and death after 

 vaccination. 



John Birch, a London surgeon, at first adopted vac- 

 cination and corresponded with Jenner, but soon finding 

 that it did not protect from small-pox and that it also 

 produced serious and sometimes fatal diseases, he became 

 one of its strongest opponents, and published many let- 

 ters and pamphlets against it up to the time of his death 

 in 1815. 



Mr. William Goldson, a surgeon at Portsea, published 

 a pamphlet in 1804, giving many cases in his own expe- 

 rience of small-pox following vaccination. What made 

 his testimony more important was that he was a believer 

 in vaccination, and sent accounts of some of his cases to 

 Jenner so early as 1802, but no notice was taken of 

 them. 1 



Mr. Thomas Brown, a surgeon of Musselburgh, pub- 

 lished in 1809 a volume giving his experiences of the 

 results of vaccination. He had at first accepted and 

 practised it. He also applied the " variolous test," with 

 apparent success, and thereafter went on vaccinating in 

 full confidence that it was protective against small-pox, 

 till 1808, when, during an epidemic, many of his patients 

 caught the disease from two to eight years after vaccina- 

 tion. He gives the details of forty-eight cases, all within 

 his own personal knowledge, and he says he knew of 

 many others. He then again tried the " variolous test,' 7 



1 The cases of failure of vaccination here referred to are given in 

 Mr. William White's "Story of a Great Delusion," where fuller ex- 

 tracts and references will be found. 



