A comparative statement of facts and observations relative to the cow-pox / published by Doctors Jenner and Woodville. [Anon].

  • Paytherus, Thomas
Date:
1800
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Credit: A comparative statement of facts and observations relative to the cow-pox / published by Doctors Jenner and Woodville. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >3 ] It cannot be concealed, that on the third andjifth, politico. Dr. Jenner and Dr. Woodville entertain oppolite opinions.— What immediately relates to thefifth has been already contrafted. We fhall therefore proceed to examine what has be£n advanced for and againft the third pofition. In June 1798, Dr. Jenner publiflhed his Inquiries, in which he afferts *, “ That it is an excefs in the number of puftules which we chiefly dread in Smallpox; but in the Cow-pox no puftules appear ' 4 The Vaccine Inoculation commenced at the Inoculation Hof- pital, in January 1799.—Dr. WoodvilleJ- gives the following hiftory of the Cow-pox virus with which he commenced his ex- periments. “ Towards the latter end of January laft I was informed that » # See Dr. Jenner’s Inquiries, p. 67. + See Dr, Woodville’s. the