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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    CHAPTER II. THE TRUE PEDIGREE OF ENGLISH VACCINE. On Sunday, the 20tli of January, 1799, word was brought to Dr. Woodville, physician to the Inoculation Hospital, that the cow-pox had appeared in the cows at a dairy in Gray’s Inn Lane.* The next day he went to see the disease, taking with him Tanner, the veterinary student from Gloucestershire, who was supposed to know something of it. Three or four cows were found to be affected with “ pustulous sores on their teats and udders.” There were about two hundred cows in all, and of these four-fifths became eventually infected, those not in milk escaping. Woodville thus narrates the event to Jenner in a letter four days after: f “ As he [Tanner] declared it to be the genuine disease, I that day inoculated six persons with the matter that he procured from a cow which appeared to be the most severely affected with the pustular complaint. On Wednesday I again called at the cow-house to make further inquiries, when I was much pleased to find two or three of the milkers were infected with the disease, one of whom exhibited a more beautiful specimen of the disease than that which you have represented in the first plate [large bluish- white vesicle on the hand, with centre fallen in]. From * Reports of a Series of Inoculations for the Variolce Vaccince or Cow- jtox. By tVilliam Woodville, M.D., Physician to the Sm.all-pox ami Inoculation Hospitals. London, 1799. + Baron’s Life, i. 307.