Observations on the cow-pox / by William Woodville.

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Observations on the cow-pox / by William Woodville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    related without the leaft referve, and with the moft fcrupulous fidelity ; notwlthftanding, my conclufions in refped to a point of confider- able importance have been oppofed in a man- ner which I deem wholly unwarrantable. I allude to the puftular eruptions which appeared on more than half the patients firft inoculated for the Cow-pock, under my direction; Dit. Jenner, in a late publication,^ having main- tained that thofe puftules could only proceed from variolous matter, introducec| inocula- tion i nto the conftitution along with that of the vaccine. That objeAions would be made to t]u5 effe<Mt,. iijight be forefeen, and they were, accordingly-anticipated in my Reports^ where feveral fads and arguments are brought for- ward to prove,: tli^t; al]^ t]^e cafes wbich-^^ ha^^. reprefented; as- xafes of •Gq-w-pox, •were-.prp-ci *, See l«s continuatioo. of fci^^4 pbfervaUons.reIatinE to*li», rariola; vaccinae. duced