The origin of the vaccine inoculation / [Edward Jenner].

  • Edward Jenner
Date:
1801
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Credit: The origin of the vaccine inoculation / [Edward Jenner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftruck with the idea that it might be pradlicable to propagate the difeafe by inoculation, after the manner of the Small Pox, firft from the Cow, and finally from one human being to another. I anxioufly waited fome time for an opportunity of putting this theory to the tefi. At length the period arrived. The firfi: ex- periment was made upon a lad of the name of Phipps, in whofe arm a little Vaccine Virus was inferted, taken from the hand of a young woman who had been accidentally infedted by a cow. Notwithstanding the refemblance which the puftule, thus ex- cited on the boy’s arm, bore to variolous inoculation, yet as the indifpofition attending it was barely perceptible, I could fearcely perfuade myfelf the patient was fecure from the Small Pox. However, on his being inoculated fome months afterwards, it proved that he was fecure*. This Cafe infpired me with confi- dence; and as foon as I could again furnifh myfelf with Virus from the Cow, I made an arrangement for a feries of inocula- * This boy was inoculated nearly at the expiration of five years afterwards with variolous matter, but no other effe£t was produced beyond a local inflammation around the punctured part upon the arm. tions.
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