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

Date:
1887
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Credit: The natural history of cow-pox and vaccinal syphilis / by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ATTEMPT TO SUPERSEDE WOODVILLE'S r.YMPII. IQ a new stock of lymph of his own finding, which would be iinder no reproach as to eruptions. Thomas Tanner, a veterinary student from Gloucestershire, was the means of getting some cow-pox matter for him from Clarke’s dairy in Kentish Town, “ some time in April.”* Although Jenner was at hand in London, he did not attempt to start a series of arm-to-arm inoculations with the new matter ; but sent Tanner with it at once to his friend Marshall, at Eastington, who was then busy vaccinating with Wood- vUle’s lymph. Marshall writes to Jenner on the 26th of April, giving an account of 107 vaccinations, with accurate details, which latter Jenner thought it superfluous to pub- lish. He says nothing about any Kentish Town lymph brought by Tanner, but ends his letter with a declaration which sounds rather odd in the circumstances : “In the cases alluded to here, you will observe that the removal from the original source of the matter [Woodville’s Gray’s Inn Lane cow] has made no alteration or change in the nature or appearance of the disease, and that it may be continued ad infinitum (I imagine) from one person to another with- out any necessity of recurrmg to the original matter of the cow.” t Meanwhile Robert Tanner, a resident in Gloucestershire, had also discovered a case of cow-pox, at North Nibley in that county, and sent matter from it to Jenner in London. All U.S., printed by that author in his second pamphlet, p. 18. (Cambridge, U.S., 1802.) * Jenner, in a letter to Ring, August IGth, 1799 (Baron’s Life, i. 356). The characters of the disease in this cow are nowhere stated : an omission not to be exciised considering the many forms of “si)urious” pox in the cow.