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The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact Chapters

White, William · Public domain text

237,019 words · about 16 h 36 min to read

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Author
William White (1831–1890)
Language
English
Subjects
Vaccination
Length
237,019 words · about 16 h 36 min
Sections
58 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (58)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. I. Cotton Mather and Zabdiel Boylston, 1 under 1 min
  3. I. Jenner’s Earlier Years, 91 about 1 min
  4. Introduction about 57 min
  5. I. COTTON MATHER AND ZABDIEL BOYLSTON about 10 min
  6. II. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU about 7 min
  7. III. MAITLAND’S EXPERIMENTS about 14 min
  8. IV. THE FIRST OPPONENTS OF INOCULATION about 12 min
  9. V. COLLAPSE OF INOCULATION about 11 min
  10. VI. REVIVAL OF INOCULATION about 12 min
  11. VII. TRIUMPH OF INOCULATION about 16 min
  12. VIII. INOCULATION ABROAD about 15 min
  13. IX. INOCULATION SUPERSEDED AND SUPPRESSED about 16 min
  14. X. AS TO THE PREVALENCE OF SMALLPOX IN THE 18TH CENTURY about 21 min
  15. I. JENNER’S EARLIER YEARS about 16 min
  16. II. JENNER’S INQUIRY, 1798 about 35 min
  17. III. JENNER IN 1798 about 13 min
  18. IV. PEARSON’S INQUIRY about 14 min
  19. V. WOODVILLE, PEARSON AND JENNER about 10 min
  20. VI. JENNER’S FURTHER OBSERVATIONS.[111] about 10 min
  21. VII. OPERATIONS IN LONDON, 1800 about 18 min
  22. VIII. TRIUMPH OF THE NEW INOCULATION about 9 min
  23. IX. A DISHONOURABLE TRANSFORMATION about 10 min
  24. X. JENNER BEFORE PARLIAMENT, 1802 about 19 min
  25. XI. PEARSON’S EXAMINATION.[128] about 16 min
  26. XII. OBSERVATIONS ON THE POSITION IN 1802 about 15 min
  27. XIII. THE ROYAL JENNERIAN SOCIETY about 18 min
  28. XIV. APPLICATION TO PARLIAMENT FOR JENNER’S RELIEF, 1806 about 7 min
  29. XV. REPORT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS about 12 min
  30. XVI. JENNER RELIEVED--1807 about 9 min
  31. XVII. VACCINATION ESTABLISHED AND ENDOWED about 14 min
  32. XVIII. HORSEGREASE AS A SOURCE OF VACCINE about 21 min
  33. XIX. JOHN BIRCH about 13 min
  34. XX. GOLDSON AND BROWN about 8 min
  35. XXI. MOSELEY, ROWLEY AND SQUIRREL about 22 min
  36. XXII. WILLIAM COBBETT about 23 min
  37. XXIII. THE GROSVENOR CASE about 7 min
  38. XXIV. DR. JOHN WALKER about 17 min
  39. XXV. JENNER’S LATER WRITINGS about 23 min
  40. XXVI. BARON’S LIFE OF JENNER about 21 min
  41. XXVII. THE MEDICAL POSITION IN 1823 about 9 min
  42. XXVIII. INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION TO THE UNITED STATES about 19 min
  43. XXIX. INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION TO INDIA AND THE EAST about 18 min
  44. XXX. DIFFUSION OF VACCINATION THROUGHOUT EUROPE about 18 min
  45. XXXI. SWEDEN, DENMARK AND ICELAND about 21 min
  46. XXXII. NEWCASTLE SMALLPOX: A COMMON STORY about 10 min
  47. XXXIII. THE NORWICH EPIDEMIC--1819 about 12 min
  48. XXXIV. SMALLPOX DISPLACED AND REPLACED about 22 min
  49. XXXV. THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT--1808-40 about 26 min
  50. XXXVI. THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT--1841-50 about 10 min
  51. XXXVII. VACCINATION ENFORCED--1853 about 22 min
  52. XXXVIII. UNIVERSAL COMPULSION DEMANDED--1855 about 14 min
  53. XXXIX. JOHN GIBBS’S LETTER--1855 about 14 min
  54. XL. SIMON’S DEFENCE AND HAMERNIK’S JUDGMENT about 23 min
  55. XLI. COMPULSION INTENSIFIED--1861 AND 1867 about 22 min
  56. XLII. THE GATHERING MOVEMENT--1867-70 about 18 min
  57. XLIII. HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE, 1871 about 31 min
  58. XLIV. THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM about 1 h 33 min

The opening of I. Jenner’s Earlier Years, 91

II.--Jenner’s Inquiry, 1798, 103

III.--Jenner in 1798, 127

IV.--Pearson’s Inquiry, 136

V.--Woodville, Pearson, and Jenner, 145

VI.--Jenner’s Further Observations, 152

VII.--Operations in London, 1800, 159

VIII.--Triumph of the New Inoculation, 171

IX.--A Dishonourable Transformation, 177

X.--Jenner before Parliament, 1802, 183

XI.--Pearson’s Examination, 197

XII.--Observations on the Position in 1802, 208

XIII.--The Royal Jennerian Society, 218

XIV.--Application to Parliament for Jenner’s Relief,
1806, 230

XV.--Report of the Royal College of Physicians, 235

XVI.--Jenner Relieved, 1807, 243

XVII.--Vaccination Established and Endowed, 250

XVIII.--Horsegrease as a source of Vaccine, 259

XIX.--John Birch, 274

XX.--Goldson and Brown, 283

XXI.--Moseley, Rowley and Squirrel, 289

XXII.--William Cobbett, 303

XXIII.--The Grosvenor Case, 317

XXIV.--Dr. John Walker, 322

XXV.--Jenner’s Later Writings, 333

XXVI.--Baron’s Life of Jenner, 349

XXVII.--The Medical Position in 1823, 363

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