The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact ChaptersPART I.—VARIOLOUS INOCULATION.Reading editionChapter navigation60 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterTHE STORY OF A GREAT DELUSION.INTRODUCTION.PART I.—VARIOLOUS INOCULATION.Chapter I · COTTON MATHER AND ZABDIEL BOYLSTON.Chapter II · LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU.Chapter III · MAITLAND’S EXPERIMENTS.Chapter IV · THE FIRST OPPONENTS OF INOCULATION.Chapter V · COLLAPSE OF INOCULATION.Chapter VI · REVIVAL OF INOCULATION.Chapter VII · TRIUMPH OF INOCULATION.Chapter VIII · INOCULATION ABROAD.Chapter IX · INOCULATION SUPERSEDED AND SUPPRESSED.Chapter X · AS TO THE PREVALENCE OF SMALLPOX IN THE 18TH CENTURY.PART II.—VACCINATION.Chapter I · JENNER’S EARLIER YEARS.Chapter II · JENNER’S INQUIRY, 1798.Chapter III · JENNER IN 1798.Chapter IV · PEARSON’S INQUIRY.Chapter V · WOODVILLE, PEARSON AND JENNER.Chapter VI · JENNER’S FURTHER OBSERVATIONS.[111]Chapter VII · OPERATIONS IN LONDON, 1800.Chapter VIII · TRIUMPH OF THE NEW INOCULATION.Chapter IX · A DISHONOURABLE TRANSFORMATION.Chapter X · JENNER BEFORE PARLIAMENT, 1802.Chapter XI · PEARSON’S EXAMINATION.[128]Chapter XII · OBSERVATIONS ON THE POSITION IN 1802.Chapter XIII · THE ROYAL JENNERIAN SOCIETY.Chapter XIV · APPLICATION TO PARLIAMENT FOR JENNER’S RELIEF, 1806.Chapter XV · REPORT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.Chapter XVI · JENNER RELIEVED—1807.Chapter XVII · VACCINATION ESTABLISHED AND ENDOWED.Chapter XVIII · HORSEGREASE AS A SOURCE OF VACCINE.Chapter XIX · JOHN BIRCH.Chapter XX · GOLDSON AND BROWN.Chapter XXI · MOSELEY, ROWLEY AND SQUIRREL.Chapter XXII · WILLIAM COBBETT.Chapter XXIII · THE GROSVENOR CASE.Chapter XXIV · DR. JOHN WALKER.Chapter XXV · JENNER’S LATER WRITINGS.Chapter XXVI · BARON’S LIFE OF JENNER.Chapter XXVII · THE MEDICAL POSITION IN 1823.Chapter XXVIII · INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION TO THE UNITED STATES.Chapter XXIX · INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION TO INDIA AND THE EAST.Chapter XXX · DIFFUSION OF VACCINATION THROUGHOUT EUROPE.Chapter XXXI · SWEDEN, DENMARK AND ICELAND.Chapter XXXII · NEWCASTLE SMALLPOX: A COMMON STORY.Chapter XXXIII · THE NORWICH EPIDEMIC—1819.Chapter XXXIV · SMALLPOX DISPLACED AND REPLACED.Chapter XXXV · THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT—1808-40.Chapter XXXVI · THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT—1841-50.Chapter XXXVII · VACCINATION ENFORCED—1853.Chapter XXXVIII · UNIVERSAL COMPULSION DEMANDED—1855.Chapter XXXIX · JOHN GIBBS’S LETTER—1855.Chapter XL · SIMON’S DEFENCE AND HAMERNIK’S JUDGMENT.Chapter XLI · COMPULSION INTENSIFIED—1861 AND 1867.Chapter XLII · THE GATHERING MOVEMENT—1867-70.Chapter XLIII · HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE, 1871.Chapter XLIV · THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.INDEX.Previous chapter ←INTRODUCTION.Next chapter →Part 1 — Chapter I · COTTON MATHER AND ZABDIEL BOYLSTON.All chapters and sections (60)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsTHE STORY OF A GREAT DELUSION.INTRODUCTION.Parts1Part 1 · Chapters12345678910Parts2Part 2 · Chapters1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344Part 2 · Other sectionsINDEX.PART I.—VARIOLOUS INOCULATION.← INTRODUCTION.CHAPTER I. COTTON MATHER AND ZABDIEL BOYLSTON. →