The natural history of cow-pox and vaccinal syphilis / by Charles Creighton.

Date:
1887
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    challenged to go on. Accordingly, we find that on Novem- ber 26 th he took matter from a poxed cow at a farm in the village of Stonehouse, where the disease had been passing successively from one cow to another since Michaelmas.* The results of that new trial, the fourth that he is known to have made with cow-pox matter, are not recorded in their completeness : they have to be collected from various scattered references. When Woodville wrote to Jenner on the 25th of January following, to tell him of his own success in establishing a stock of vaccine from a cow in London, Jenner replied by return of post,f and thus adverts to a late attempt of his, which can have been none other than that with the Stonehouse cow-pox, on November 26th : “ Whether to the cold season of the year, or to what other cause it can be ascribed, I know not, but out of six patients that I lately inoculated, two of them only were infected.” Of the four uninfected, two (on November 27th) are knownj to have been the children of Mr. Hicks, of Eastington, who were successfully vaccinated for the first time with Wood- ville’s own lymph in the end of February following.§ The two who were infected are introduced with a good deal of detail in Further Observations,in order to illusti’ate * Further Ohservaliom, ed. cit. p. 99. f Baron, i. 308. J Baron, i. 303. Tlie biographer does not seem to have known that these vaccinations failed (although he mentions “two children of Jlr. Hicks ” as having been vaccinated with Woodville’s lymjA some three months after). He specially calls attention to their “ vaccination ” on the 27th of November, “ to disprove an assertion subsequently made that the first vaccination performed by Dr. Jenner after the publication of his Inquiry [in June, 1798] was with virus furnished by Dr. Pearson.” § Baron, i. 324. 11 Ed. cit., pp. 99—103.