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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    [ <4 ] “ the Cow-pox had appeared among feveral of the milch cows “ kept in Gray’s-Inn-Lane, and upon examination of thefe, “ three or four were difcovered to be affedted with puftular fores “ upon their teats and udder. Thefe puftules correfponded in “ their appearance with the reprefentation and defcription of the “ genuine Cow-pox, as given by Dr. Jenner. “ The hands of three or four perfons became fore in confe- “ quence of milking the cows thus affedted ; and one of them, “ (Sarah Rice) exhibited fo perfedt a fpecimen of the difeafe, that “ I could entertain no doubt of its being the true and not the “ fpurious Cow-pox.” No doubt therefore can be entertained that Dr. Woodville commenced the Vaccine Inoculation with the true Cow-pox virus. On the 21ft of January, 1799, Jeven perfons were inoculated with it, by a tingle pundture on the arm of each ; of this number four had puftules. Five hundred perfons, in- cluding the feven juft mentioned, are reported by Dr. Wood- ville, to have been inoculated in the Small-pox Hofpital, immedi- ately