The natural history of cow-pox and vaccinal syphilis / by Charles Creighton.
- Charles Creighton
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The natural history of cow-pox and vaccinal syphilis / by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![challenged to go on. Accordingly, we find that on Novem- ber 26th he took matter from a poxed cow at a farm in the village of Stonehouse, where the disease had been passing successively from one cow to another since Michaelmas.* The results of that new trial, the fourth that he is known to have made with cow-pox matter, are not recorded in their completeness : they have to be collected from various scattered references. When Woodville wrote to Jenner on the 25th of January following, to tell him of his own success in establishing a stock of vaccine from a cow in London, Jenner replied by return of post,f and thus adverts to a late attempt of his, which can have been none other than that with the Stonehouse cow-pox, on November 26th : Whether to the cold season of the year, or to what other cause it can be ascribed, I know not, but out of six patients that I lately inoculated, two of them only were infected. Of the four uninfected, two (on November 27th) are known]: to have been the children of Mr. Hicks, of Eastington, who were successfully vaccinated for the first time with Wood- ville's own lymph in the end of February following.§ The two who were infected are introduced with a good deal of detail in Further Observations,\\ in order to illustrate * Further Observations, ed. cit. p. 99. + Baron, i. 308. X Baron, i. 303. The biographer does not seem to have known that these vaccinations failed (although he mentions two children of Mr. Hicks as having been vaccinated with Woodville's lymph some three months after). He specially calls attention to their vaccination on the 27th of November, to disprove an assertion subsequently made that the first vaccination performed by Dr. Jenner after the publication of his Inquiry [in June, 1798] was with virus furnished by Dr. Pearson.'' § Baron, i. 324. || Ed. cit, pp. 99—103.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21028539_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
