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

Date:
1887
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    Hill he took matter to Eastington, where he inoculated the two children of Mr. Hicks, and sixteen others in that gentleman’s factory or house. Jenner had at length got a lymph to his mind, although it was not of his own breeding. Writing on the 13 th of March to Pearson, he describes the effects of the London lymph as follows ;* “ The character of the arm is just that of cow-pox, except that I do not see the disposition in the pustules to ulcei'ate, as in some of the former cases.” Pearson had by that time issued more than two hundred threads of vaccine matter to practitioners all over the country, as well as abroad, along with a circular letter of directions; so that Jenner was now only one of many who were vaccinating continuously with the London lymph. His nephew wrote to him from London to come up and wear the laurels which he had won, and to prevent others from wearing them; and accordingly Jenner went to the capital in the end of March, leaving the vaccinations to be carried on in his absence mainly by Marshall, a practitioner at Eastington. The situation was somewhat difficult, and it can- not be said that Jenner comes out of it as creditably as we could have wished. He seized upon the variolous eruptions that were complicating Woodville’s cases at the Inoculation Hospital as a pretext for insinuating, in his correspondence and otherwise, that the lymph was not genuine ; although he himself was using that very lym]3h, having absolutely failed to raise a stock of his own'! In a few weeks Woodville got over the eruptions difficulty; but J enner kept up the cry for several years, f Meanwhile, he saw the opening for * Baron, i. 316. t See his letter of 4th of Marchj 1801, to Dr. Waterhouse, of Harvard,