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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contrived under which the practitioner niisht sculk in case of failure or mistake, and the more nearly the description of these said spurious and irregular vesicles are made to resemble the genuine vesicles and the greater difficulty there is in distinguish- tog between them, the more effectukHy will this shield protect those who use it. He fur- ther says, The term, spurious cowpox, as applied to the inflammation that takes place subsequent to inoculation, and terminates in a pustule, in a creeping or spreading ul- ceration, or in erysipelas, might as well be applied to the effects resulting from the prick of a thorn, a wound from a rusty lancet, the bite of a leech in certain con- stitutions, &c. Now, this position of Mr. Bryce is clearly erroneous ; for in the first place, we are cer- tain that vaccine virus was made use of for the purpose : Secondly, we have every rea- son to believe that the matter, or some por- tion of it was inserted at the place of in- oculation : and, Thirdly, it is not less a fact that the phenomena manifesting themselves [6-2]
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