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 alfo explains why the matter taken from the arm of Ann Bumpus, who had three hundred and ten puftules on her body that fuppurated, occalioned no puftules in Glo’cefterlhire. (t be hazardous and improper, on account of conftitutional difeafe, the Vaccine “ may be fubftituted with fafety, often with advantage, by inducing a change in “ the fyltem, tending to improve the general health. If my time would allow “ me, I could give you two flrong inftances to that effedt; every additional cafe of Vaccine Inoculation more flronglv imprefies on my mind its ineltimable “ virtue ; and the more I view it, the llronger convidtion is obtained, that in its “ pure uncontaminated form it cannot be confidered as an eruptive difeafe “ Should I at any future time have reafon to change that opinion, I (hall not f< hefitate to communicate it to you. “ I am, with refpedt, “ Your friend and humble Servant, “ D. LITTLE. “ P. S. Having drawn up the preceding remarks in great halte, permit me to 4‘ corredt an error which I have fallen into in refpedt of the time of the appear- “ ance of the eruptions on the youngeft child. They did not appear until the “ day following the appearance of thofe on the eldelt.” A cafe of cafual Mealies has alfo fallen under our obfervation, which went for- ward undilturbed by the local adtion of Cow-pox. Yet the adtion of Cow-pox, from Dr. Jenner’s account, fufpended the progrefs of the fcarlatina in the cafe of Mifs H—— R—. (See page 172.) Had