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

Date:
1887
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    left scars wliicli are evident at this day; and when the hands are very cold these scars are of a livid cast. (5) Has met with two cases in which the matter of the cow-pox, by being applied to the eyes, destroyed the power of vision from the opacity of the cornea so produced. (c) No person has heen known to die, or even to he in danger with the cow-pox, although the axillary glands have been much affected, and the sores on the hands have healed with difiBoulty. (10) Evidence of Dr. Fowler, of Sarum: “This morning (24th of October, 1798) Anne Francis, a servant-girl, aged twenty-six, was brought to me; she informs me that some years ago bluish pustules arose on her hands from milking cows diseased by the cow-pox. These pustules soon became scabs, which, falling off, discovered ulcerating and very painful [sores], which were treated by a cow doctor, and were long in healing.” From the evidence sent in to him, Pearson concluded that the milkers’ cow-pox was of two degrees: (1) those cases where they are confined to bed for several days, and have “ painful phagedenic sores ” for several months; and (2) cases so slight that the patients are not confined at all, but get well in a week or ten days. Ceely's original observations of cow-pox on the cow's teats and on the milker's hands.—Besides the information collected by Jenner and by Pearson, hardly anything was added to the natural history of cow-pox in England until Estlin and Ceely wrote upon the subject from 1838 to 1842. The English inquiries in the years immediately following Tenner’s announcement, as well as most of the foreign ones, were devoted mainly to discovering a basis in experiment for the horse-grease hypothesis. In the vaccination controversy nothing new was adduced as to the characters of cow-pox in the cow, or in the casually communicated human form •, the