541-542;
evidence House of Commons’ committee, 1871, 554.

Pearce, Thomas, case of horsegrease, 115.

Pearson, Dr. George, associates himself with Jenner, 134;
publishes Inquiry, 136;
Jenner’s note thereon, 153;
discovers prevalence of faith in cowpox, 137-139;
subjects London dairymen to variolous test, 140;
denies equine origin of cowpox, 142;
conjectures that inoculation is applicable to other diseases, 143-144;
discovers cowpox in London, uses and distributes it, and lectures, 146-147;
sets aside Jenner’s doctrine, 153, 158, 472, 512;
considered horsegrease like to damn the whole thing, 158, 260, 336, 375;
founds Vaccine Pock Institution, 1799, 159, 251;
refusal of Jenner’s assistance, 160-161;
success of Institution, 168;
application from French Consulate, 168;
public reception of cowpox, 170;
Pearson heard with impatience by House of Commons’ committee, 193;
publishes Examination, 197;
his own and Woodville’s claims, 197;
that he corrected Jenner’s assertions, 198;
developed practice, 198;
established Vaccine Pock Institution, 199;
impossibility of Jenner making a secret of vaccination, 199;
his pecuniary claims absurd, 199;
what he did and for what he might have been rewarded, 199-200;
merits of Examination, 200;
Pearson failed to recognise strength of his own position and Jenner’s imposture, 201-203;
Pearson and Woodville really introduced cowpox to Europe and America, 151, 203, 260-261, 352, 360, 375, 404;
Jesty invited to London, 204-205;
offers reward for smallpox after cowpox, 258;
held revaccination impossible, 205, 259, 303;
estimate of Jenner, 225;
Pearson as seen by De Carro through Jenner, 265, 266.

Pease, Sir Joseph, advocates limitation of penalties, 577.

Peel, Sir Robert, adverse to compulsion, 476, 480, 485.

Pegge, Sir Christopher, 176.

Peking, vaccination in, 394.

Pennington, Sir Isaac, horsegrease, 142.

Pepys, Sir Lucas, 255.

Perceval, Mr., 72;
moves that Jenner have £10,000, 243, 247.

Percival, Dr., Manchester, letter to Jenner, 133.

Persia, variolation and vaccination, 394.

Peru and Mexico, 321, 322, 401-403.

Petition, Jenner’s, 184;
discussed, 185-186.

Peto, Sir Morton, 529.

Petty, Lord Henry, brings Jenner’s case before House of Commons, 231-232, 234, 243, 245, 253, 257, 454.

Philadelphia, variolation, 38;
letter from Jenner, 341-342;
cowpox accounted indelicate, 374.

Phillips, Sir Richard, son vaccinated by Jenner takes smallpox, 312.

Phipps, James, first person cowpoxed by Jenner, 101, 116, 119, 120.

Physicians, London, College of, approve of variolation, 43;
report on vaccination, 235;
decline to receive Jenner without examination, 361.

Pickering, John, starts Anti-Vaccinator, 574;
exposes fraudulent statistics in Leeds, 575.

Pitman, Henry, labours and suffering in opposition to vaccination, 544, 545, 574.

Pitt, William, 184, 215, 231.

Plague stayed by vaccination, 359.

Playfair, Sir Lyon, 546, 553, 578, 583.

Plett, Holstein, inoculated with cowpox, 1791, 94.

Pock-Marked Faces, 468;
disappearance avouched by National Vaccine Establishment, 469-470.

Poor Law Authorities, vaccination committed to, 471.

Post Office conveyed correspondence of Royal Jennerian Society gratis, 275.

Potato introduced, 88-89;
denounced by Cobbett, 316, 317.

Pouschin, 63.

Prague Hospital, 520, 521.

Priessnitz, treatment of smallpox, 508, 509.

Prig, Betsy, 240.

Prince, Rev. T., Boston smallpox, 1752, 373.

Procter, Edmund, 590.

Prussia, vaccination introduced, 405;
revaccination proved useless in army, 520.

Pulteney, Dr., cowpox, 131, 136, 138.

Putnam, Dr., Boston, uses smallpox cowpox, 76.

Pylarini, 1, 7, 10.


Quakers and vaccination, 228;
their Institution and pox preferred, 457-458;
church-rates, 560;
oaths, 593.


Ramsay, Dean, 51.

Ranby, Sergeant, variolator, 41, 59.

Ratcliffe, Dr., 199.

Red gum deadens vaccine virus, 340.

Redesdale, Lord, 572.

Rees’s Cyclopædia, 163.

Rendall, Mrs., cowpoxer, 94.

Rennie, Dr., smallpox and vaccination in Peking, 394.

Revaccination treated as impossible, 159;
Dr. Pearson’s opinion, 198, 259, 303;
recommended, 1844, 473;
pronounced superfluous by National Vaccine Establishment, 1851, 473;
proved useless in armies of Prussia and Wurtemburg, 520.

Reynolds’s System of Medicine, 66.

Rhazes, 521.

Richardson, Dr. B. W., 547.

Ricord, M., invaccination of syphilis, 310.

Riddiford, Abraham, smallpox after horsegrease, 115.

Rigby, Miss, death from variolation, 34.

Rigby, Mr., surgeon, Norwich, 434.

Ring, John, Jenner’s henchman and bully, 172;
gets up medical testimony, 172, 174;
his publications, 173;
Jenner in Portman Square, 176;
witness for Jenner, 190;
recommended for Chief Vaccinator and result, 255, 455;
Birch on his failures, 280;
attack on Edinburgh Review, 290, 303;
libels Walker, 324-330;
brutality to Goldson, 351;
compliments Dr. Waterhouse, 378;
“wit,” 379;
ruthless and untruthful, 578.

Ringwood, smallpox after vaccination, 252, 308, 313.

Robinson, Dr. Bryan, 34.

Robinson, Enoch, Can Disease protect Health? 582.

Roby, Dr., Boston, 5.

Rochdale smallpox, 30.

Rodway, William, smallpox after cowpox, 106.

Rolph, Mr., surgeon, common Gloucestershire faith in cowpox, 137.

Rome, variolation introduced, 62.

Rose, George, moves vote for National Vaccine Establishment, 252, 254, 255, 308.

Rous, Lord, 192.

Rowan, Miss Frederica, 418.

Rowlandson’s caricatures, 298.

Rowley, Dr. William, 187, 290, 361;
opponent of vaccination, 297;
evidence of subsequent smallpox and injuries, 298;
delirium of vaccinators, 299;
his character, 299.

Royal Society, 1, 2, 7, 30, 37.

Royal Jennerian Society, 218-229;
admit smallpox after cowpox, 293;
Cobbett’s remarks, 305, 307, 312;
wreck and salvage, 322;
annexed by London Vaccine Institution, 323;
union disliked by Jenner and Ring, and denounced, 324, 326, 329;
Society wrecked by Jenner’s jealousy and intrigue, 453, 455, 456.

Ruskin and Cobbett, 304.

Russia, vaccination introduced and prescribed, 406;
tolerated resistance, 407.

Russian Emperor Alexander cautioned by Jenner against Walker, 329;
an unprofitable interview, 362.


Sacco, Dr., Milan, uses horsegrease, 264, 267, 336, 512,
and supplies De Carro of Vienna, 265, 405;
his cowpox transmitted through De Carro to India, 385;
exploits as vaccinator, 403-404, 406.

Salvani, vaccine missionary, 401.

Salivation, 519.

Sanitation, new faith, 448, 474, 477.

Sancho, William, 258.

Sangrado, 571.

Scarlet fever inoculated, 359;
in Newcastle, 428, 430;
increased and intensified since vaccination, 448;
in England and Wales, 1838-40, 505, 506.

Scheuchzer, Dr., variolation, 1721-28, 32.

Schleisner, Dr., Icelandic smallpox, 420-421.

Schultz, Dr., 62.

Sclater-Booth, G., 576.

Scotland, smallpox and variolation in 18th century, 50;
smallpox an infantile disorder, 51;
smallpox among vaccinated, 1818-19, 366;
statistics of smallpox, 1859 to 1872, 534;
Compulsory Act, 1863, 563.

Scott, Dr. Helenus, 385, 388, 392.

Scott, Dr. John, 591.

Scott, Sir Walter, 371.

Scrofula excited by variolation, 166, and vaccination, 515.

Scurvy, prevalence in 18th century, 87;
influence on smallpox, 521.

Seaford, Sussex, 83.

Seaton, Dr. E. C., Handbook of Vaccination, smallpox cowpox, 75;
mendacious letter, 485-497;
ruling spirit of Epidemiological Society, 486;
intrigues for place and power, 495;
evidence House of Commons’ committee, 1871, 568-570;
ruthless, untruthful, mercenary, 578.

Sebright, Sir John, 247.

Seville, fatalities from vaccination, 401.

Sewell, Mr., attempts to produce cowpox from horsegrease, 335.

Sewell’s Point, Boston, 58.

Shaftesbury, Lord, neglected vaccination, 481;
improved houses might exterminate smallpox, 482.

Sherborne, Lord, 183, 184, 185.

Shrapnell, Mr., 171, 269.

Sievier, statue of Jenner, 363.

Siljeström, P. A., smallpox in Sweden, 417-419.

Simmons, Mr., Manchester, experiments with horsegrease, 133, 155.

Simon, John, recitation of Jennerian legend, 103;
Jenner’s masterpiece, 124, 142, 155, 156, 158, 333;
Papers on History and Practice of Vaccination, 510-519;
terrible tales, 511;
London smallpox, 511-512;
cowpox derived from smallpox and infallible prophylaxy thereof, 512-513, 525;
mis-statement of Jenner’s prescription, 513, 525;
all vaccination assumed effective, 514;
drawbacks unfairly stated, 515;
scrofula, 515;
admitted dangers, 515;
qualities of virus unknown, 516;
syphilis, 516;
difficulties of vaccination, 516;
sickly children, 517;
selection of virus, 517;
an ideal rarely realised, 518;
questions addressed to 500 medical men, 518;
answers predetermined, 519;
value and characteristics, 524-525;
evidence House of Commons’ committee, 1871, 557;
unscrupulous character, 558;
ruthless, untruthful, mercenary, 578.

Simonds, Professor J. B., cowpox a questionable disease, 272.

Simpson, James, 189.

Sims, Dr., 187, 226, 331.

Skey, Dr., 189.

Sloane, Sir Hans, 15, 23;
Newgate experiment, 17;
cautious counsels, 17.

Smallpox an infantile disease in Scotland, 51, 242, 445;
epidemic, 1818-19, 367;
in China, 394;
in Sweden, 409-410;
in Norwich, 436;
in Glasgow, 440;
disease of young and poor, 26, 437, 440, 445, 470.
An alternative of other diseases, in Sweden, 415-417;
in Newcastle, 428;
in Glasgow, 439-444;
the fact enforced by Dr. Farr, 447-451;
by John Gibbs, 504-506;
by Professor F. W. Newman, 546;
by Dr. Bakewell, 560;
by Malthus, 570;
the disease to be studied with its congeners, 511;
epidemic of 1871, 570-571.
In London, 1701-1722, 24-25;
18th century, 77-87;
1791 to 1820, 346;
development of fabulous salvation, 466-468;
decline prior to vaccination, 86, 211, 466-467.
In England and Wales, conjectural mortality, 25, 194, 208-209, 345;
case according to John Gibbs, 505, 507;
fabulous salvation, 526-528.
In Boston, 3-6, 371-373;
Chester, 69;
China, 394;
Edinburgh, 49-51, 366;
Geneva, 61-62;
Glasgow, 439-445;
Newcastle, 424-430;
New England, 1787, 84, 374;
Norwich, 432-438;
Sweden, 408-419.
Declining prior to introduction of vaccination in London, 86, 222-225, 466-467, 487;
over Europe, 368, 431, 446, 468, 476, 514;
in Vienna, 369;
Sweden, 410, 414-416;
Italy, 404;
Denmark, 419;
Glasgow, 446;
Dr. Farr’s evidence, 86, 211, 466-467.
Exaggerated horrors, 76, 430, 570;
Massey’s evidence, 23;
Wagstaffe’s, 24;
Monro’s, 50;
Haygarth’s, 69;
Birch’s, 85;
multitudes never had smallpox, 65;
unknown for years in some parts of England, 83;
rarity in Norwich, 433;
disease ever had some limit, 210, 431;
wild assertions of House of Commons’ committee, 212;
terrible tale of Mexico, 511.
Rate of mortality prior to vaccination in Boston, 3, 372;
Christ’s Hospital, 23, 524;
London, 24-25, 26, 31, 79-80, 373;
Halifax, Rochdale, Leeds, 30;
Edinburgh, 50;
London Smallpox Hospital, 66;
Newcastle 427;
Glasgow, 440;
according to Dr. Buchan, 66,
and Edinburgh Review, 66.
Increased by variolation, 69, 72, 236, 246, 390, 426, 431, 462-464.
Intensified by maltreatment, 84, 427, 437, 521;
by food, 87, 316, 521.
Sporadic character, 209, 522, 568.
Origin in horse according to Jenner, 97, 359, 513.

Smallpox cowpox introduced, 75;
connection with cowpox denied 273;
cows contract smallpox from milkers, 378-379;
Ceely and Badcock, 75, 272, 472, 514, 528;
unqualified confidence of Simon, 512-513, and Robert Lowe, 528.

Smith, Dr. Southwood, absolute faith in sanitation, 478, 556.

Smith, William, cowpox after cowpox, 106.

Smith, William, exaltation of Jenner, 247.

Spain, escaped variolation, 62;
vaccination introduced, 400-401.

Spencer, Earl, 397.

Spencer, Herbert, increased vaccination and smallpox, 541.

Squirrel, Dr., opponent of vaccination, 290, 301, 361.

Stanhope, Earl, 73.

Staunton, Sir George, 394.

Steigertahl, Dr., 17.

Stephens, Joanna, remedies for stone, 37.

Stepney, 26, 27.

Stevens, Dr., never saw injury from vaccination, 566.

Stiles, Henry, smallpox after cowpox,