Volume 1
History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank.
- Edgar Crookshank
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![LIST OF PLATES. Plate I. PORTRAIT OF Mr. BENJAMIN JESTY facmg title page Reduced fac-simile of an engraving by W. Say, from the original painting by M. W. Sharp. The engraving bears the following inscription :— “ To the President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurers, Trustees, and Medical Officers of the Original Vaccine Institution. “This print of Mr. Benjamin Jesty, from a picture in the possession of the Institution, is respectfully inscribed by their deyoted Servant, Will'- Say. “ Mr. B. JESTY, Farmer of Downshay, Isle of Purbeck, aet. 70, who ' inoculated his Wife and Two Sons for the Vaccine Pock in 1774, from his cows, at that Time disorder’d by the Cow Pock, and who subse- quently from the most rigorous Trials have been found unsusceptible of the Small Pox. Having rationally set the Example of Vaccine Inoculation from his own knowledge of the Fact of Unsusceptibility of the Small Pox after casual Cow Pock in his own Person and in that of others, and from knowing the harmlessness of the Complaint. To commemorate the Author of these historical truths the Vaccine Institution have procured this portrait.’’ (Extract from the Minutes of the Original Vaccine Institution, Broad Street, Golden Square.) Plate II. NATURAL COW POX. Case of Sarah Nelmes, Dairy- maid. (^JENNER) facing p. 136 “ SARAH NELMES, a dairymaid at a Farmer’s near this place [Berkeley], was infected with the Cow Pox from her master’s cows in May 1796. She received the infection on _a part of the hand which had been previously in a slight degree injureTby a scratch from a thorn. A large pustulous sore and the usual symptoms accompanying the disease were produced in consequence. The pustule was so expressive of the true character of the Cow Pox, as it commonly appears upon the hand, that I have given a representation of it in the annexed plate. The two small pustules on the wrists arose also from the application of the virus to some minute abrasions of the cuticle, but the livid tint, if they ever had any, was not conspicuous at the time I saw the patient. The pustule on the forefinger shows the disease in an earlier stage. It did not actually](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29007446_0001_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
