Cheap tract on the cow-pox. A plain statement of facts, in favour of the cow-pox, intended for circulation through the middle and lower classes of society / [John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, active 1809.
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1809
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    differtnt fjmes, out he never took it frofn them, Ed. Stockl^y, age I 20, bad he Cow-^ox when young, he zuas inoculated severcil times for the Small-pox^ but never took it. A servant ot Mr. Morns l ad the Cow pox many years ago ; he has been inoculated jor the Small-pox seventeen times since^ but never took it.[a) Alban C</]iingbridge bad the natural Cow-pox twenty years ago. Four years after he was inoculated for the Small-pox^ but did not take it. Two of his brothers who had not had the Cow- pox took the wSmall-pox. lie slept with them, hut did riot take it. His children have had the Small-pox^ but he did not take it. Mr. Sfeaves had the Cow-pox fiom his own cows in the year 1764. Four years after he was inoculated for the Small-pox, and in 1791, twenty-seven years after., all his family had the Small-poXt he attended them all the time. He never took the Small-pox.[b) -Rudland, aged 73, had the Cow-pox when young ; from fifty to sixty years alterwards said that he never had the Small¬ pox^ and thought he never should, he had been inoculated se many times without taking it.(c) I'hese facts may suffice. I shall now select a few from a multitude, 10 proved, similar preserving power in the inoculated Cow-pox. Of seven thousand five hundred cases that had the inoculated Cow-pox under Dr. Woodville’s eye, he inoculated afterwards nearJour thousand tor the Small-pox. Not one ojthem took it.{e) Of twelve hundred patients inoculated for the Cow-pox by Mr. Ring, one thousand have been either inoculated for the Small-pox or exposed to its contagion, but not one has had This trial has been made more than a million oJtimes with the same result.(j) It is surely unnecessary to give any more evidence to 'prove this fact. Such however as wish to make assurance doubly sure, may find volumes of evidence pointed out below.(/4) We have a record not to be doubted, of eighteen thousand cases^ (inoculated for the Cow-pox by the first practitioners in London] who have since remained free from the Small-pox, though inoculated for it or exposed to its contagion. Dr. J enner lias observed that wherever the Cow-pox\id% been much piacticcd, there the Small-pox is least seen, and where it is universally practiced that it is not seen at all ; and if brought by accident that it does not spread. In the year 180^, the Small pc)x raged in London, notwithstanding the decrease in the number ot deaths from Small-pox, in the preceding years 1801, [a) L. ii. 403. (b) L. Iv. 259. (r) L. vii. 541, See further, L. ix. vi. 106, aad the cases HI Dr.'Jenncr’s two works, (e) R. 3. (F) R. 38. (g) E, ,51. (b) W. 11. 15, 8cc; L. from 1798-1809. A. 86. B. R. appendix, E. 1.. Vol. loi. 2. J) W, 13 (10) W. No. i. , \ : i