A practical treatise on vaccina or cowpock / by Samuel Scofield, M.D. ... ; embellished with a coloured engraving, representing a view of the local affection in its different stages.

  • Scofield, Samuel
Date:
1810
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    The origin of Cowpock is a subject, admit- ting of a great latitude of theoretical discus- sion, but owing to the bounds which I have prescribed to myself in the present treatise, I am precluded from investigating it with mi- nuteness. If, however, we can place confi- dence in the most recent information, the in- dentity of the virus of these diseases seems pretty well established. It is said that Dr. Sac- co, of Milan, procured some infection from the heel of a gentleman's coach horse labour- ing under scratches, w ith which he succeeded in exciting adiseasein thehumanconstitution exactly resembling the cowpock, not only as respects its peculiar character, but also in protecting the system against the ravages of variolous poison. Dr. Sacco afterwards transmitted matter taken directly from the heels of a horse, to Dr. De Carro, of Vien- na, and to Dr. Friese, director of vaccine inoculation in Silesia. Both of these gentle- men, it seems, were equally successful in producing the disease, with this virus, as Dr. Sacco had been; and it is now stated that
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