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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    C 2 9 ] puftules on the body, produces Small-pox; and why the matter taken from the Cow-pock puftule on the arm of the fame pati- ent, produces Cow-pox. It <e which had appeared within the two laft days, and upon my calling at the houfe, “ found the infant with the Chicken-pox fo dijlindtly marked, as not to he mijlaken “ by the moft fuperficial obfervance. This cafe affords fome obfervations, which I “ think important: had it been a folitary one, great doubts would have arifen “ of what nature the eruptions were, and would perhaps have been confidered “ as vaccine eruptions. But the cafe of the youngelt child places it beyond the “ fhadow of a doubt on my mind. It may be objected by fome, that two dif- “ eafed actions are not known to exift at the fame time. This is true in general, “ I believe, but not always ; and though the two difeafes here appear to have gone “ on together, I can readily conceive why they fhould—the genuine vaccine difeafe, “ in as far as puftules are concerned, is, I am perfuaded, confined to the place “ of infertion of the matter, producing a fpecific fever in a given time. The “ Chicken-pox is known to be an eruptive difeafe, accompanied alfo with flight “ fever; and in the prefent inftance, the vaccine fever fupervening, produced “ the excitement on the fkin, accompanied with the veficular puftules of the “ Chicken-pox. From the obfervations in my practice of Vaccine Inoculation, “ amounting to more than fifty cafes, I believe the genuine Cow-pox never pro- “ duces puftules on the body; pimples, where a previous difpofition on the fkin “ already exifts, I have often feen, but they never fuppurate ; and I ftrongly “ fufpeft, that thofe cafes which have been given to the wrorld, as cafes of vac- “ cine eruptions, have been mixt cafes of fome other eruptive difeafes not clearly “ difcriminated. 1 am willing to believe and hope, that when the prejudices 11 which now exift are removed, the Vaccine Inoculation will be univerfal. I “ am fatisfied, that in thofe cafes where the Inoculation for the Small-pox would “ be