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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    this person I charged a lancet with the matter, which appeared different from that taken from the cow, as that of the former was piirely lymphatic, and the latter of a purulent form. With this lymphatic matter I immediately inoculated two men at the hospital. Finding now \i.e. after the infection of the milkers] there could be no doubt of the disease,” he went to inform Sir Joseph Banks, Pearson, Willan, and others, who visited the cow-house along with Lord Summerville and several more on the day following. Jenner’s book was produced, and the appearance in Plate I. compared with the vesicles on the hand and arm of one of the milkers, and pronounced to be very similar. Matter was a second time taken from the milker’s hand or arm, Wood- ville proceeding straight to the Inoculation Hospital with it, and there inoculating six more (making fourteen direct inoculations in all). To this communication from Woodville, dated 25th of January, Jenner replied by return of post. He wishes, he says, that he could be at Woodville’s elbow. “After the description you have given, there can be no doubt, I think, that the disease is the true and not a species of the spurious cow-pox. In the account of the appearance on the milker’s hand, the report of my friend Tanner merits great con- fidence. ” In view of the strong position that Jenner had taken up on the question of spurious cow-pox only six months before, and of what he said about it again a month or two later, he was certainly not over-critical, from his own point of view, in giving a warranty of genuineness to Woodville’s lymph. This curious piece of sophistiy touch- ing the “ genuine ” and the “ spurious ” in cow-pox will be rcfen'ed to later on; meanwhile the Gray’s Inn Lane