Oppositions

• People said it was against God’s law to give humans an animal disease
• People said smallpox was a punishment for sin so it shouldn’t be cured
• inoculators were out of a job if vaccination took off
• The Royal Society refused to publish Jenner’s book, saying it was too revolutionary
• People said that the government had no right to interfere with people’s lives and it was their choice to get them vaccinated or not
• People couldn’t afford or didn’t have time to get their children and themselves vaccinated
• Vaccinators were clumsy and always in a rush, so sometimes it didn’t work and the patient could still get smallpox
• People didn’t want to believe Jenner because he was a lowly country doctor without a well known reputation in big towns and cities
• Woodville and Pearson carried out the same experiment but due to contaminated equipment one of the patients died, so they said it didn’t work