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 discovery of vaccination is one of the most important that has ever been made."
"I have always endeavoured to be guided by reason, and not by prejudice."
"I have often been struck with the wonderful harmony that prevails throughout the works of nature."
"I have always been an advocate for public health, and I have always endeavoured to promote it."
"The joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities was so excessive that I sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie…"
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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