An Estimate of the True Value of Vaccination as a Security Against Small Pox ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AN ESTIMATE, _&c. &c._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newcastle; Printed by T. & J. Hodgson, Union Street ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AN ESTIMATE OF THE TRUE VALUE OF VACCINATION AS A SECURITY AGAINST SMALL POX. BY T. M. GREENHOW, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LONDON; SURGEON TO THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL, TO THE CHARITY FOR POOR MARRIED WOMEN LYING IN AT THEIR OWN HOUSES, AND TO THE INFIRMARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EYE, NEWCASTLE. “And in order to stimulate the wise and good to aim strenuously at this consummation (the total extirpation of Small Pox), let it be constantly borne in mind, that the adversary they are contending with is the greatest scourge that has ever afflicted humanity. That it is so, all history, civil and medical, proclaims; for though the term Plague carries a sound of greater horror and dismay, we should probably be within the truth, if we were to assert, that Small Pox has destroyed a hundred for every one that has perished by the Plague.” _Sir Gilbert Blane._ LONDON: PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; AND EMERSON CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE. 1825. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface. My design, in entering upon the following little work, has been to collect, and to compress within as narrow a compass as possible, the principal facts and evidences upon which the claims of Vaccination are founded; that the public may be furnished, in a concise but comprehensive form, with the information which is essential to their forming a correct judgment on this momentous question.