Observations on the cow-pock / By John Coakley Lettsom.

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1801
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Credit: Observations on the cow-pock / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tained. To refute this opinion I adduced fe- veral fadts, proving that varioliform puftules had frequently accompanied the Cow-pock inoculation, though no doubt could be enter- tained of the genuinenefs or purity of the vaccine matter employed for the inoculation; and alfo a number of experiments, fufficient i to fhew that the Cow-pock does not hybridife with the fmall-pox, but that both difeafes continue diftindt in the fame patient; of . which the following lingular inftance may be confidered as an additional proof. “ About two months ago, a girl, eleven years of age, was admitted into the inoculation hofpital, where Ihe was inoculated with vac- cine matter. Five days afterwards, Ihe was feized with the fymptoms of fmall-pox, and an eruption of puftules (about 200) took place. On the 10th day of the inoculation, one of the variolous puftules appeared diftindt- ly within the margin of the vaccine tumour. I charged a lancet with matter taken from the centre of the tumour, and with it inocu- lated, a child, in whom it produced a regular .cafe - *
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