This Inquiry will lay all those troublesome ghosts which have so long haunted the Metropolis with their ox-faces, & dismal hootings against Vaccination. However, tis all for the best – you may depend upon it the new Investigation will prove the touchstone of the vaccine discovery.
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"The greatest reward for my labours is the satisfaction of having done good to my fellow creatures."
"The practice of vaccination is now so generally adopted, that it is hardly necessary to recommend it."
"The most beautiful part of the human frame is the eye; and yet it is the most liable to disease."
"I shall not attempt to give a detail of all the cases that have come under my observation, but shall select a few of the most striking, and such as will, I trust, be sufficient to convince the candid …"
"I have often found that the most simple remedies are the most efficacious."
In a letter to a Mr. Phillips, referring to an inquiry by the College of Physicians into vaccination, expressing confidence and disdain for his critics.
Date: 1807
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This investigation will finally silence the persistent critics and fearmongers who have been spreading alarm about vaccination in the city. Despite the opposition, this scrutiny should be welcomed — a rigorous new examination will ultimately prove and validate the vaccine's worth, turning skeptics' challenges into proof of its legitimacy.
Jenner spent decades defending vaccination against fierce public and medical opposition after introducing the smallpox vaccine in 1796. His confidence here reflects his empirical certainty — he had witnessed cowpox-vaccinated patients resist smallpox repeatedly and believed transparent investigation would always vindicate his findings rather than threaten them.
In late 18th and early 19th century Britain, vaccination faced organized anti-vaccination movements, religious objections, and satirical attacks including famous cartoons showing vaccinated people growing cow parts. Parliament debated compulsory vaccination amid urban public health crises, making London's 'Metropolis' the epicenter of controversy over Jenner's revolutionary discovery.
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